10 000-hop cascaded in-line all-optical 3R regeneration to achieve 1 250 000-km 10-Gb/s transmission

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 718-720

  Zhu, Zuqing ^a   Funabashi, Masaki ^a   Pan, Zhong ^a   Paraschis, Loukas ^b   Yoo, S J B ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical clock recovery; Fabry P rot filter (FPF); Optical regeneration; Semiconductor optical amplifier based Mach Zehnder interferometer (SOA MZI); Synchronous modulation; Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

10 GB/ S; ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL 3R REGENERATION; ALL-OPTICAL CLOCK RECOVERY; ALL-OPTICAL REAMPLIFICATION; IN-LINE; OPTICAL REGENERATION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; POWER PENALTY; PSEUDO RANDOM BIT SEQUENCES; RETIMING; RETURN-TO-ZERO TRANSMISSION; ROT FILTER; SYNCHRONOUS MODULATION;

ATOMIC CLOCKS; BIT ERROR RATE; ELECTRIC CLOCKS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; MODULATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; RECOVERY; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33745092175     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.871141     Document Type: Article

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