All-optical phase-preserving amplitude regeneration of 28-Gbaud RZ-DQPSK signals with a microcavity saturable absorber in a recirculating loop experiment

Quang Trung Le (1) , Laurent Bramerie (1) , Mathilde Gay (1) , Michel Joindot (1) , Jean-Claude Simon (1) , Arthur O'Hare (2) , Hoang Trung Nguyen (3) , Jean-Louis Oudar (3)

1 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
2 School of Physics
3 LPN - Laboratoire de photonique et de nanostructures

Microcavity Saturable absorber is used for phase-preserving amplitude regeneration of RZ-DQPSK signals. The regenerator is assessed in a 28 Gbaud recirculating loop showing system tolerance to nonlinear phase noise and distance improvement.

Mots clés: saturable absorber; all-optical signal processing; all-optical regeneration; optical fiber communication; phase shift keying

Domaines: Optique / photonique; Optique [physics.optics]

Quang Trung Le, Laurent Bramerie, Mathilde Gay, Michel Joindot, Jean-Claude Simon, et al.. All-optical phase-preserving amplitude regeneration of 28-Gbaud RZ-DQPSK signals with a microcavity saturable absorber in a recirculating loop experiment. Optical Fiber Communication conference and National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2011 (OFC/NFOEC 2011), Mar 2011, Los Angeles, CA, United States. pp.OMT5, ⟨10.1364/OFC.2011.OMT5⟩. ⟨hal-00585463⟩