Title :
Investigation of fibre launch power margin in 40 Gb/s transmission with all-optical regeneration
Author :
Gavioli, G. ; Thomsen, B. ; Mikhailov, V. ; Bayvel, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, UK
Abstract :
An experimental investigation of 40 Gb/s transmission with all-optical regeneration using an SOA-assisted fibre interferometer is reported. A dynamically-reconfigurable optical fibre loop is used to investigate the regenerator dynamic range.
Keywords :
light interferometry; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 40 Gbit/s; SOA-assisted fibre interferometer; all-optical regeneration; dynamically-reconfigurable optical fibre loop; fibre launch power margin; regenerator dynamic range;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
