Title :
A regenerative variable optical buffer for NRZ and RZ packets
Author :
Berrettini, Gianluca ; Scotti, Filippo ; Contestabile, Giampiero ; Bogoni, Antonella
Author_Institution :
Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy
Abstract :
A re-circulating-loop optical memory exploiting regenerative amplification by crossgain- compression in a SOA is reported. Hundred circulations with maximum delay of 130μs with 0.5dB power penalty every 10 rounds are obtained with 10Gbps NRZ and RZ-packets.
Keywords :
buffer storage; optical storage; semiconductor optical amplifiers; NRZ packets; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; maximum delay; re-circulating-loop optical memory; regenerative amplification; regenerative variable optical buffer; time 130 mus; Optical attenuators; Optical buffering; Optical fibers; Optical packet switching; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
