Title :
Regenerative re-circulating fiber loop for optical buffering
Author :
Scotti, F. ; Berrettini, G. ; Serafino, G. ; Contestabile, G. ; Bogoni, A.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Lab. on Photonic Networks, CNIT, Pisa, Italy
Abstract :
We propose a re-circulating fiber-loop-based optical memory exploiting regenerative amplification by cross-gain-compression in an SOA. 50 circulations giving around 150 μs buffering time with 1.2 dB power penalty every 10 rounds are reported.
Keywords :
optical fibres; optical storage; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; cross-gain-compression; optical buffering; optical memory; regenerative amplification; regenerative re-circulating fiber loop; Adaptive optics; Gain; Optical buffering; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical packet switching; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8940-4
DOI :
10.1109/PHO.2011.6110418
