Title :
Experimental characteristics of an all-optical 2R regenerator with adjustable decision threshold
Author :
Vanderhaegen, Bart ; Morthier, Geert ; Baets, Roel
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Belgium
Abstract :
We present measurements on a fiber-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer with Gain Clamped SOA´s in both arms. We obtained a true (i.e. on a linear scale) decision characteristic with extinction ratio´s of 10 dB. We also demonstrate that by varying the SOA currents, the decision threshold can be varied
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical fibre communication; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; all-optical 2R regenerator; decision threshold; extinction ratio; fiber-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer; gain-clamped SOA; Arm; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical crosstalk; Optical distortion; Optical interferometry; Optical saturation; Power generation; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5634-9
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1999.812027
