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All-optical Regenerator Using Semi-reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

  • Kim T.Y. (Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Yonsei University) ;
  • Kim J.Y. (Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Yonsei University) ;
  • Han S.K. (Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Yonsei University)
  • Received : 2006.02.10
  • Published : 2006.03.01
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Abstract

We have proposed and theoretically verified an optical regenerator using a single semi-reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (SR-SOA). To explain the operation characteristics and the operation condition of the proposed opticalregenerator, the simplified gain model for the SR-SOA is introduced and confirmed by comparing the result of the SOA simulation based on the transfer matrix method (TMM). The simulation results show that both extinction ratio (ER) enhancement and signal amplification can be achieved in the proposed regenerator.

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