All-optical passive 2R regeneration of dispersion-managed RZ data at 40 and 80 Gbit/s using in-line NOLMs

Author

Boscolo, Sonia ; Turitsyn, Sergei K. ; Blow, Keith J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Appl. Sci., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

83

Abstract

We demonstrate that the use of in-line nonlinear optical loop mirrors (NOLMs) in dispersion-managed (DM) transmission systems dominated by amplitude noise can achieve passive 2R regeneration of a 40 and 80 Gbit/s RZ data stream. This is an indication that the use of this approach could obviate the need for full-regeneration in high data rate, strong DM systems, when intra-channel four-wave mixing poses serious problems

Keywords

mirrors; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; timing jitter; 40 Gbit/s; 80 Gbit/s; Q-value; all-optical passive 2R regeneration; amplitude noise; dispersion-managed RZ data; dispersion-managed transmission system; eye-diagrams; in-line NOLMs; loop mirror intensity filtering; nonlinear optical loop mirrors; pseudorandom binary sequence data stream; pulse distortion; stable soliton transmission; timing jitter; Delta modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Optical distortion; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Q factor; Repeaters; Space vector pulse width modulation; Timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.969184

Filename

969184