Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7105-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2001.969184
