Title :
All-Optical 3R Regeneration using Higher-Order Four-Wave Mixing in a Highly Nonlinear Fiber with a Clock-Modulated Optical Pump Signal
Author :
Ito, Chris ; Monfils, Iannick ; Cartledge, John
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, Ont.
Abstract :
10 Gb/s all-optical 3R regeneration based on a self-pulsating laser and higher-order four-wave mixing in a highly nonlinear fiber achieved receiver sensitivity improvements of up to 7.5 dB for degraded optical signal-to- noise ratio and 7.8 dB for residual dispersion
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical receivers; optical repeaters; 10 Gbit/s; all-optical 3R regeneration; clock-modulated optical pump signal; degraded optical signal-to-noise ratio; dispersion compensating fiber; higher-order four-wave mixing; nonlinear fiber; receiver sensitivity; residual dispersion; self-pulsating laser; Clocks; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Laser excitation; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Repeaters;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2006.278991
