All-optical 3R burst-mode reception at 40 Gb/s using four integrated MZI switches

Kanellos, GT; Petrantonakis, D; Tsiokos, D; Bakopoulos, P; Zakynthinos, P; Pleros, N; Apostolopoulos, D; Maxwell, G; Poustie, A; Avramopoulos, H

dc.contributor.author	Kanellos, GT	en
dc.contributor.author	Petrantonakis, D	en
dc.contributor.author	Tsiokos, D	en
dc.contributor.author	Bakopoulos, P	en
dc.contributor.author	Zakynthinos, P	en
dc.contributor.author	Pleros, N	en
dc.contributor.author	Apostolopoulos, D	en
dc.contributor.author	Maxwell, G	en
dc.contributor.author	Poustie, A	en
dc.contributor.author	Avramopoulos, H	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:44:25Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:44:25Z
dc.date.issued	2007	en
dc.identifier.issn	0733-8724	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/31819
dc.subject	Burst-mode receiver (BMR)	en
dc.subject	Dynamic range	en
dc.subject	Integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI)	en
dc.subject	Optical burst switching	en
dc.subject	Optical packet switching	en
dc.subject	Optical signal processing	en
dc.subject.classification	Engineering, Electrical & Electronic	en
dc.subject.classification	Optics	en
dc.subject.other	Optical data processing	en
dc.subject.other	Optical signal processing	en
dc.subject.other	Optical switches	en
dc.subject.other	Packet switching	en
dc.subject.other	Timing jitter	en
dc.subject.other	Burst-mode receiver	en
dc.subject.other	Data reception	en
dc.subject.other	Data regeneration	en
dc.subject.other	Optical packet switching	en
dc.subject.other	Optical-burst switching	en
dc.subject.other	Mach-Zehnder interferometers	en
dc.title	All-optical 3R burst-mode reception at 40 Gb/s using four integrated MZI switches	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1109/JLT.2006.888169	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2006.888169	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2007	en
heal.abstract	We demonstrate an all-optical retime, reshape, reamplify (3R) burst-mode receiver (BMR) operating error-free with a 40-Gb/s variable-length asynchronous optical data packets that exhibit up to 9-dB packet-to-packet power variation. The circuit is completely based upon hybrid integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometric (MZI) switches as it employs four cascaded MZIs, each one performing a different functionality. The 3R burst-mode reception is achieved with the combination of two discrete all-optical subsystems. A reshape, reamplify BMR employing a single MZI is used first to perform power equalization of the incoming bursts and provide error-free data reception. This novel approach is experimentally demonstrated to operate error-free, even for a 9-dB dynamic range of power variation between bursty data packets and for a wide range of average input power. The obtained power-equalized data packets are then fed into a 3R regenerator to improve the signal quality by reducing the phase and amplitude jitter of the incoming data. This packet-mode 3R regenerator employs three MZIs that perform wavelength conversion, clock extraction, and data regeneration for every packet separately and operates at 40 Gb/s, exhibiting rms timing jitter reduction from 4 ps at the input to 1 ps at the output and a power penalty improvement of 2.5 dB. © 2007 IEEE.	en
heal.publisher	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC	en
heal.journalName	Journal of Lightwave Technology	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1109/JLT.2006.888169	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000245189400024	en
dc.identifier.volume	25	en
dc.identifier.issue	1	en
dc.identifier.spage	184	en
dc.identifier.epage	192	en