Comparison of all-optical co- and counter-propagating high-speed signal processing in SOA-based Mach-Zehnder interferometers

Svend Bischoff; Alvaro Buxens; S. Fischer; M. Dülk; Anders Clausen; Henrik Nørskov Poulsen; Jesper Mørk

doi:10.1023/A:1017572913628

Comparison of all-optical co- and counter-propagating high-speed signal processing in SOA-based Mach-Zehnder interferometers

Svend Bischoff, Alvaro Buxens, S. Fischer, M. Dülk, Anders Clausen, Henrik Nørskov Poulsen, Jesper Mørk

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

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The all-optical signal processing performance of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is investigated. Calculated switching windows are used to investigate and understand the physical mechanisms limiting the high speed performance. Especially, the co- and counter-propagating operation of the MZI is discussed and important differences in the performance for the two schemes are addressed. The non-regenerative all-optical clear and drop functionality is investigated for a 2, 4 and 8 x 40 Gbit/s signal, showing good performance in the co-propagating case. Regenerative simultaneous clear and drop functionality in a single MZI is demonstrated experimentally and compared to the large signal model predictions.

Original language	English
Journal	Optical and Quantum Electronics
Volume	33
Issue number	7-10
Pages (from-to)	907-926
ISSN	0306-8919
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017572913628
Publication status	Published - 2001

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Comparison of all-optical co- and counter-propagating high-speed signal processing in SOA-based Mach-Zehnder interferometers

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