Title :
Optical timing jitter transfer characteristics of a 40 Gb/s hybrid integrated SOA-Mach-Zehnder interferometer all-optical regenerator
Author :
Poustie, A. ; Wyatt, R. ; McDougall, R. ; Maxwell, G. ; Hemenway, B.R.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Integrated Photonics, Ipswich, UK
Abstract :
The optical jitter transfer characteristics are measured for a SOA-MZI all-optical regenerator operated in 2R and 3R mode. A tenfold reduction in timing jitter is demonstrated with controllable jitter applied to the input optical data.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optics; optical fibre communication; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; timing jitter; 2R mode; 3R mode; 40 Gbit/s; all-optical regenerator; controllable jitter; hybrid Mach-Zehnder interferometer; integrated SOA-MZI; optical timing jitter transfer; timing jitter reduction;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
