• DocumentCode
    2745643
  • 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
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    9-13 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    47
  • Lastpage
    48
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Arlington, VA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8940-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHO.2011.6110418
  • Filename
    6110418