Novel optical-regenerator using electroabsorption modulators

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作者
Miyazaki, T [1 ]
Otani, T [1 ]
Edagawa, N [1 ]
Suzuki, M [1 ]
Yamamoto, S [1 ]
机构
[1] KDD R&D Labs Inc, Kamifukuoka, Saitama 3568502, Japan
关键词
optical regenerator; electroabsorption modulators; wavelength conversion;
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We have proposed and demonstrated a novel optical regenerator architecture employing electroabsorption modulators as wavelength converters. The employment of EA modulators is advantageous for high-speed operation and flexibility in the bit-rate for the pulse regeneration. In addition, the EA modulator-wavelength-converter acts also as a photo diode for clock extraction. Compensation of the optical SNR and Q-factor has been demonstrated, even in cascaded noise load. Furthermore, against dispersion loading, we have confirmed that waveform recovery and Q-factor improvement is obtained by midway insertion of the optical regenerator. The proposed architecture will offer a wide-band-electronics-free optical regenerator in multi-tens of gigabit per second WDM networks.
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页码:1148 / 1153
页数:6
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