• DocumentCode
    855540
  • Title

    Investigation of 43-Gb/s Transmission With a Wavelength Preserving SOA-Based Optical Regenerator

  • Author

    Gavioli, Giancarlo ; Bayvel, Polina

  • Author_Institution
    Electron. & Electr. Eng. Dept., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK
  • Volume
    21
  • Issue
    14
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    7/15/2009 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1014
  • Lastpage
    1016
  • Abstract
    Transmission with cascaded optical regeneration based on synchronous modulation combined with optical reshaping by cross-gain compression in a semiconductor optical amplifier is investigated at 43 Gb/s over transoceanic distances (10 000 km). The proposed optical regenerator configuration performs signal reshaping and retiming while preserving the input signal wavelength. The regenerator cascadability properties are investigated using a reconfigurable loop to assess the impact of different inter-regeneration spacing on the transmission signal properties.
  • Keywords
    optical modulation; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; cascaded optical regeneration; distance 10000 km; optical reshaping; semiconductor optical amplifier; synchronous modulation; Optical regeneration; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); transmission; wavelength conversion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2009.2021957
  • Filename
    4914790