2R-Regeneration of an 80-Gb/s RZ-DQPSK Signal by a Nonlinear Amplifying Loop Mirror

Kristian Cvecek, K. Sponsel, R. Ludwig, Colja Schubert, C. Stephan, G. Onishchukov, Gerd Leuchs

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 2007 · 30 citations · 7 references

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Abstract

The performance of a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror as a 2R-regenerator for an 80-Gb/s return-to-zero differential-quadrature-phase-shift-keyed signal has been investigated experimentally. A significant eye-opening improvement and a negative power penalty of up to 2.6 dB were obtained.

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