Optical reshaping of 40-Gb/s NRZ and RZ signals without wavelength conversion

被引:18
作者
Contestabile, Giampiero [1 ]
Presi, Marco [1 ]
Proiletti, Roberto [1 ]
Ciaramella, Ernesto [1 ]
机构
[1] Scuola Super Sant Anna, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
关键词
all-optical regeneration; cross-gain compression (XGC); semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA);
D O I
10.1109/LPT.2008.924646
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We experimentally demonstrate a scheme for all-optical reshaping at 40 Gb/s that is wavelength preserving and transparent to both nonreturn-to-zero and return-to-zero ON-OFF keying signals. Eye-diagram reshaping is confirmed by means of bit-error rate versus threshold measurements on both modulation formats. The scheme is based on cross-gain compression in an semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and uses two SOAs that are not in interferometric configuration. Due to its working principle, this method is polarization-independent and suitable, in principle, for higher bit rates.
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页码:1133 / 1135
页数:3
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