160 Gb/s Error-Free Transmission through a 100-km Fibre Link with Mid-Span All-Optical SOA-Based Wavelength Conversion

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Herrera, J.; Raz, O.; Tangdiongga, E.; Waardt, H. de; Koonen, A. M. J.; Khoe, G. D.; Dorren, H. J. S. (COBRA Research Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Herrera, J.; Ramos, F.; Marti, J. (Nanophotonics Technology Center, Universidad Politcnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain)
Liu, Y. (University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, P. R. China)

Abstract:
160 Gb/s error-free transmission with acceptable penalty levels is demonstrated through a 50-km fibre link followed by a high-speed all-optical SOA-based wavelength converter and subsequently followed by another 50-km fibre link.