Performance of a Polarization Insensitive 3R Optical Regenerator Based on a new SOA-NOLM Architecture

Laurent Bramerie (1) , Mathilde Gay (1) , Gwenaëlle Girault (1) , Vincent Roncin (1) , Sylvain Feve (1) , Jean-Claude Simon (1)

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

A polarization insensitive 3R-optical regenerator, based on an original two-stage SOA discriminating gate, is experimentally investigated in a 100 km recirculating loop at 10 Gbit/s. At least 1000 regenerating repeater cascades is demonstrated (100000 km).

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Laurent Bramerie, Mathilde Gay, Gwenaëlle Girault, Vincent Roncin, Sylvain Feve, et al.. Performance of a Polarization Insensitive 3R Optical Regenerator Based on a new SOA-NOLM Architecture. 30th European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2004), Sep 2004, Stockholm, Sweden. pp.378-379. ⟨hal-00148598⟩