Title :
Regeneration and cascadability assessment of a new passive 2R regenerator based on a dual-stage saturable absorber gate
Author :
Gay, M. ; Bramerie, L. ; Nguyen, H.T. ; Lobo, S. ; Aubin, G. ; Le, Q.T. ; Joindot, M. ; Oudar, J.L. ; Simon, J.C.
Author_Institution :
FOTON, ENSSAT, Univ. de Rennes 1, Lannion
Abstract :
We report on the regenerative properties and on the cascadability assessment of a passive 2R regenerator based on a dual-stage microcavity saturable absorber gate for low and high levels regeneration.
Keywords :
microcavities; optical repeaters; optical saturable absorption; cascadability assessment; dual-stage microcavity saturable absorber gate; dual-stage saturable absorber gate; passive 2R regenerator; Microcavities; Mirrors; Noise reduction; Optical pumping; Power measurement; Probes; Reflectivity; Repeaters; Substrates; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brussels
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2228-9
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729250
