2R Regeneration Study in a Microcavity with a Saturable Absorber

Frédéric Ginovart (1) , Elodie Le Cren (1) , Jean-Claude Simon (1)

1 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON

We theoretically study the dynamical response of a saturable absorber (SA) in a microcavity realizing a non-linear mirror (NLM). We compare the effects of the SA response time on the extinction ratio of a single pulse crossing a single NLM and a two NLM based device. We also study 2R regeneration of a 40 Gbit/s pulses train with a single NLM.

Mots clés: Saturable absorber; Optical regeneration

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Frédéric Ginovart, Elodie Le Cren, Jean-Claude Simon. 2R Regeneration Study in a Microcavity with a Saturable Absorber. Optics Communications, 2004, Vol.229 (Issues 1-6), pp.413-417. ⟨10.1016/j.optcom.2003.10.050⟩. ⟨hal-00145618⟩