A technological approach is presented for a compact optical 3R regenerator consisting of a monolithic InP Mach-Zehnder interferometer decision gate, incorporating semiconductor optical amplifiers, and an electronic clock recovery unit driving a simplistic 40 GHz optical clock source. Bit error rate measurements for 10 Gbit/s regeneration demonstrate a penalty <2 dB over a wide wavelength range
Published in:
Electronics Letters
(Volume:35
,
Issue:
23
)
Date of Publication: 11 Nov 1999