10 Gbit/s all-optical regenerator |
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| Authors: | Pender WA Watkinson PJ Greer EJ Ellis AD |
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| Affiliation: | British Telecom Res. Labs., Ipswich; |
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| Abstract: | A 10 Gbit/s optical data stream has been regenerated all-optically by clock recovery and remodulation. The regenerator consists of a fibre ring laser, modelocked by the incoming data stream, and a Kerr shutter acting as an all-optical AND gate to recode the ring laser pulses with the incoming data. Error ratio measurements for an all-optical regenerator are presented for the first time and the future potential of all-optical regeneration is discussed |
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