Experimental demonstration of 42.6 Gbit/s asynchronous digital optical regenerators

Selwan K. Ibrahim, Ruwan Weerasuriya, David Hillerkuss, George Zarris, Dimitra Simeonidou, Juerg Leuthold, David Cotter, Andrew Ellis

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a 42.6 Gbit/s asynchronous digital optical regenerator (ADORE) in a dualwindow quad-gate configuration using an EAM loop and a dual-gate configuration using a single MZM. These ADORE configurations regenerate, re-shape, and re-time incoming asynchronous bursts of data to a local clock with a desired wavelength without the need for any clock recovery. The dual-window quad-gate and dual-gate ADOREs were used to regenerate and retime a 42.6 Gbit/s RZ-ASK data signal to a local generated clock with a maximum receiver penalty of only ̃4.5 dB and ̃2 dB, respectively, for any arbitrary data input phase delay.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2008 10th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON
PublisherIEEE
Pages203-206
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781424426256
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Sep 2008
Event2008 10th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON - Athens, Greece
Duration: 22 Jun 200826 Jun 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2008 10th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON
Volume3

Conference

Conference2008 10th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period22/06/0826/06/08

Keywords

  • Optical communications
  • Optical time division multiplexing (OTDM)
  • Synchronization

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