Title :
All-optical 2R regeneration and wavelength conversion at 10 Gb/s in an integrated semiconductor optical amplifier/distributed feedback laser
Author :
Webster, M. ; Wonfor, A. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Commun. Res., Bristol Univ., UK
Abstract :
2R regeneration at 10 Gb/s is demonstrated for the first time in an integrated semiconductor laser/amplifier device. A power penalty improvement of 2dB is achieved after regeneration following transmission over 50 km of standard fibre.
Keywords :
distributed feedback lasers; integrated optoelectronics; optical fibre communication; optical repeaters; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 10 Gbit/s; 50 km; DFB laser; SOA; WDM; all-optical regeneration; all-optical wavelength conversion; distributed feedback laser; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength division multiplexing; Laser feedback; Nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical fiber devices; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989117
