Cascaded Operation of a 2R Burst-Mode Regenerator for Optical Burst Switching Network Transmission

Author

Zakynthinos, Panagiotis ; Kanellos, George T. ; Klonidis, Dimitrios ; Apostolopoulos, Dimitrios ; Pleros, Nikos ; Poustie, Alistair ; Maxwell, Graeme ; Tomkos, Ioannis ; Avramopoulos, Hercules

Author_Institution

Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens

Volume

19

Issue

22

fYear

2007

Firstpage

1834

Lastpage

1836

Abstract

We demonstrate the cascaded operation of an all-optical 2R burst-mode regenerator consisting of a single Mach-Zehnder interferometer, using a loop configuration that introduces a 6-dB power variation on each recirculation of the data. The device is shown to regenerate error-free 10-Gb/s data streams for up to six successive loop recirculations.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical burst switching; optical fibre networks; optical repeaters; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; all-optical 2R regenerator; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; burst-mode regenerator; cascaded operation; data recirculation; error-free data streams; loop configuration; optical burst switching; optical network transmission; Dynamic range; Optical burst switching; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Burst-mode regenerator (BMR); dynamic range; integrated Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI); optical burst switching (OBS); optical packet switching; optical signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.907580

Filename

4367534