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All-optical 160 Gbit/s retiming system using fiber grating based pulse shaping technology

All-optical 160 Gbit/s retiming system using fiber grating based pulse shaping technology
All-optical 160 Gbit/s retiming system using fiber grating based pulse shaping technology
This paper demonstrates a retiming system operating at rates of 40 and 160 Gbit/s, which incorporates a superstructured fiber Bragg grating (SSFBG) as a pulse shaping element. The original data pulses are shaped into flat topped (rectangular) pulses to avoid conversion of their timing jitter into pulse amplitude noise at the output of a nonlinear fiber-based Kerr switch. Thus retiming is performed in a single step avoiding wavelength conversion. The benefits of using shaped rather than conventional pulse forms in terms of timing jitter reduction are confirmed by bit-error rate (BER) measurements.
0733-8724
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Parmigiani, Francesca
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Oxenløwe, Leif Katsuo
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Parmigiani, Francesca, Oxenløwe, Leif Katsuo, Galili, Michael, Ibsen, Morten, Zibar, Darko, Petropoulos, Periklis, Richardson, David J., Clausen, Anders Thomas and Jeppesen, Palle (2009) All-optical 160 Gbit/s retiming system using fiber grating based pulse shaping technology. IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 27 (9), 1135-1141. (doi:10.1109/JLT.2008.929419).

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This paper demonstrates a retiming system operating at rates of 40 and 160 Gbit/s, which incorporates a superstructured fiber Bragg grating (SSFBG) as a pulse shaping element. The original data pulses are shaped into flat topped (rectangular) pulses to avoid conversion of their timing jitter into pulse amplitude noise at the output of a nonlinear fiber-based Kerr switch. Thus retiming is performed in a single step avoiding wavelength conversion. The benefits of using shaped rather than conventional pulse forms in terms of timing jitter reduction are confirmed by bit-error rate (BER) measurements.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 30 June 2009
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 78880
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/78880
ISSN: 0733-8724
PURE UUID: 71500a2b-6489-4cdb-9a2b-473b43484eb4
ORCID for Francesca Parmigiani: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7784-2829
ORCID for Periklis Petropoulos: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-8034
ORCID for David J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 15 Mar 2010
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:41

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Author: Francesca Parmigiani ORCID iD
Author: Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe
Author: Michael Galili
Author: Morten Ibsen
Author: Darko Zibar
Author: Anders Thomas Clausen
Author: Palle Jeppesen

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