• DocumentCode
    1880481
  • Title

    All-optical 3R regeneration at 40 Gb/s in a recirculating loop utilizing raman amplification, nonlinear phase modulation, and offset filtering

  • Author

    Chung, Sung Han ; Tang, Xuefeng ; Cartledge, John C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    20-24 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The performance of an all-optical 3R regenerator for 40 Gb/s RZ-OOK signals is investigated experimentally using a recirculating loop. A power penalty of 1.2 dB is obtained for 100 loops (8,000 km).
  • Keywords
    amplitude shift keying; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical repeaters; phase modulation; RZ-OOK signals; Raman amplification; all-optical 3R regeneration; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; distance 8000 km; nonlinear phase modulation; offset filtering; power penalty; recirculating loop; Clocks; Delay effects; Fiber lasers; Filtering; Filters; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber polarization; Phase modulation; Repeaters; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Vienna
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5096-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5286976