3R all optical regeneration

Author

Tosi-Beleffi, Giorgio M. ; Forin, Davide M. ; Curti, Franco ; Matera, Francesco ; Reale, Andrea ; Betti, Silvello ; Monterosso, S. ; Fiorelli, Alessandro ; Guglielmucci, M.

Author_Institution

Ugo Bordoni Found., Rome, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

4-8 July 2004

Firstpage

55

Abstract

The authors investigate a possible technique, based on a three stage cascade configuration, in order to implement an all-optical 3R regenerator. A multiwave-mixing based unit is used to perform simultaneously reshaping, re-amplification and wavelength conversion of a propagated signal. A fiber ring based unit is used to perform the all-optical timing extraction while a classical four-wave-mixing process inside a dispersion-shifted fibre is adopted for the retiming process.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical wavelength conversion; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; synchronisation; 3R all optical regeneration; all-optical 3R regenerator; all-optical timing extraction; dispersion-shifted fibre; fiber ring; four-wave-mixing process; multiwave mixing; re-amplification; reshaping; retiming process; three stage cascade configuration; wavelength conversion; Clocks; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2004. Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8343-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2004.1361968

Filename

1361968