Title :
Investigation of cascadability and optimum inter-regenerator spacing in 43Gb/s transmission with a λ-preserving SOA-based optical regenerator
Author :
Gavioli, Giancarlo ; Bayvel, Polina
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London (UCL), London
Abstract :
43 Gb/s transmission with cascaded optical regeneration based on synchronous modulation combined with optical reshaping by cross-gain compression (XGC) in an SOA is demonstrated over transoceanic distances (10,000 km).
Keywords :
optical modulation; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; bit rate 43 Gbit/s; cascadability; cross-gain compression; distance 10000 km; optical regeneration; optical reshaping; optimum inter-regenerator spacing; synchronous modulation; transoceanic distances; Adaptive optics; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical pulses; Optical wavelength conversion; Pulse compression methods; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
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.2008.4729486
