Timing jitter analysis of a multi-wavelength all-optical regenerator

Author

Huang, Yue-Kai ; Glesk, Ivan ; Shankar, Raji ; Prucnal, PAul R. ; Xu, Lei ; Wang, Ting

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ

fYear

2007

fDate

April 30 2007-May 2 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We designed and built a novel all-optical re-timing, re-amplifying, and re-shaping (3R) regeneration system based on terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexers (TOADs) developed in our laboratory. The system is capable of parallel processing multiple wavelengths, a feature which will significantly improve the scalability of current wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks. Performance against timing jitter of the regenerator is analyzed by VPI TransmissionMakertrade simulation platform and supported with experimental results at 10 Gb/s bit rate. The all-optical regenerator showed jitter tolerance up to 0.8 UI_pp, while breaking the original input BER floor with improved BER at 10^-9.

Keywords

demultiplexing equipment; error statistics; optical design techniques; optical repeaters; timing jitter; wavelength division multiplexing; TOAD; all-optical re-timing; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; multi-wavelength all-optical regenerator; optical re-amplifying; optical re-shaping; terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexers; timing jitter; wavelength division multiplexing; Bit error rate; Laboratories; Optical design; Parallel processing; Performance analysis; Repeaters; Scalability; Timing jitter; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sarnoff Symposium, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Nassau Inn, Princeton, NJ

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2483-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SARNOF.2007.4567380

Filename

4567380