High-performance optical 3R regeneration for scalable fiber transmission system applications

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 504-511

  Zhu, Zuqing ^a   Funabashi, Masaki ^a   Pan, Zhong ^a   Paraschis, Lucas ^b   Harris, David L ^c   Yoo, S J Ben ^a  

^a Davis   (United States)

^b CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c Sprint Applied Research & Advanced Technology Labs California   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical clock recovery; Clock enhancement; Dispersion uncompensated transmission; Fabry P rot filter (FPF); Field trial; Optical regeneration; Semiconductor optical amplifier based Mach Zehnder interferometer (SOA MZI); Synchronous modulation; Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER OPTICS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALL-OPTICAL CLOCK RECOVERY; FIBER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM; OPTICAL NARROWBAND FILTERING; OPTICAL REGENERATION;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34147139011     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.888256     Document Type: Article

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