Cascadability properties of MZI-SOA-based all-optical 3R regenerators for RZ-DPSK signals

doi:10.1364/OE.19.009330

Cascadability properties of MZI-SOA-based all-optical 3R regenerators for RZ-DPSK signals

Tomofumi Kise, Kimchau N. Nguyen, John M. Garcia, Henrik N. Poulsen, and Daniel J. Blumenthal »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 10, pp. 9330-9335 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.009330

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate 50 cascaded all-optical 3R regenerators over a 1,000km transmission distance for 10-Gb/s return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying (RZ-DPSK) signals. The regenerator consists of integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) based wavelength converters. Regenerative properties and tolerance to pattern dependent effects have been studied in terms of Q-factor measurement, and error free operation with input OSNR of 20dB/0.1nm has also been demonstrated.

OCIS Codes
(250.5980) Optoelectronics : Semiconductor optical amplifiers
(230.7405) Optical devices : Wavelength conversion devices

ToC Category:
Optoelectronics

History
Original Manuscript: January 21, 2011
Revised Manuscript: February 28, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: March 30, 2011
Published: April 28, 2011

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Tomofumi Kise, Kimchau N. Nguyen, John M. Garcia, Henrik N. Poulsen, and Daniel J. Blumenthal, "Cascadability properties of MZI-SOA-based all-optical 3R regenerators for RZ-DPSK signals," Opt. Express 19, 9330-9335 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-19-10-9330

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Bayvel, P.
Bhardwaj, A.
Bornholdt, C.
Bottger, G.
Buhl (Larry), L. L.
Cabot, S.
Cappuzzo, M. A.
Chen, Y. F.
Croussore, K.
Dinu, M.
Dong, Y.
Dorrer, C.
Dutta, N. K.
Freude, W.
Gavioli, G.
Giles, C. R.
Gomez, L.
Jaques, J.
Kang, I.
Kim, C.
Kurumida, J.
Leuthold, J.
Li, G.
Li, Z.
Liu, X.
Lu, C.
Marculescu, A.
Mikhailov, V.
Mo, J.
Neilson, D. T.
Patel, S. S.
Piccirilli, A.
Rasras, M.
Sartorius, B.
Schlak, M.
Schmidt, C.
Slovak, J.
Thomsen, B. C.
Tsadka, S.
Vorreau, P.
Wang, J.
Wang, Y.
Wong-Foy, A.
Yi, X.
Yoo, S. J. B.
Yu, R.
Zhang, L.

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.

I. Kang, C. Dorrer, L. Zhang, M. Dinu, M. Rasras, L. L. Buhl (Larry), S. Cabot, A. Bhardwaj, X. Liu, M. A. Cappuzzo, L. Gomez, A. Wong-Foy, Y. F. Chen, N. K. Dutta, S. S. Patel, D. T. Neilson, C. R. Giles, A. Piccirilli, and J. Jaques, “Characterization of the dynamical processes in all-optical signal processing using semiconductor optical amplifiers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 14(3), 758–769 (2008). [CrossRef]

IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.

Z. Li, Y. Dong, J. Mo, Y. Wang, and C. Lu, “Cascaded all-optical wavelength conversion for RZ-DPSK signal based on four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifier,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 16(7), 1685–1687 (2004). [CrossRef]
P. Vorreau, A. Marculescu, J. Wang, G. Bottger, B. Sartorius, C. Bornholdt, J. Slovak, M. Schlak, C. Schmidt, S. Tsadka, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “Cascadability and regenerative properties of SOA all-optical DPSK wavelength converters,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 18(18), 1970–1972 (2006). [CrossRef]

J. Lightwave Technol.

Opt. Lett.

K. Croussore, C. Kim, and G. Li, “All-optical regeneration of differential phase-shift keying signals based on phase-sensitive amplification,” Opt. Lett. 29(20), 2357–2359 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Other

A. Gnauck, G. Raybon, S. Chandrasekhar, J. Leuthold, C. Doerr, L. Stulz, A. Agrawal, S. Banerjee, D. Grosz, S. Hunsche, A. Kung, A. Marhelyuk, D. Maywar, M. Movassaghi, X. Liu, C. Xu, X. Wei, and D. M. Gill, “2.5 Tb/s (64 x 42.7Gb/s) transmission over 40 x 100 km NZDSF using RZ-DPSK format and all-raman-amplified spas,” in Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2002), paper FC2–1.
I. Kang, C. Dorrer, L. Zhang, M. Rasras, L. Buhl, A. Bhardwaj, S. Cabot, M. Dinu, X. Liu, M. Cappuzzo, L. Gomez, A. Wong-Foy, Y. F. Chen, S. Patel, D. T. Neilson, J. Jaques, and C. R. Giles, “Regenerative all-optical wavelength conversion of 40Gb/s DPSK signals using a SOA MZI,” in Proceedings of 31st European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC) (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, 2005), 8, 29–30, paper Th. 4.3.3.
K. N. Nguyen, T. Kise, J. M. Garcia, H. N. Poulsen, and D. J. Blumenthal, “All-optical 2R regeneration of BPSK and QPSK Data using a 90° Optical Hybrid and Integrated SOA-MZI Wavelength Converter Pairs,” in Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2011), paper OMT3.

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