Digital signal regeneration with side-injection-light-controlled bistable laser diode as a wavelength converter
Abstract
Digital optical signal regeneration with a SILC-BLD markedly improves the bit error rate of degraded optical signals. The extinction improved from 3 dB to 17 dB and intensity fluctuation was suppressed from 3 dB to 0 dB. This diode can not only regenerate the signal but also converts the signal wavelength at the same time without wavelength filters or isolators.
- Publication:
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IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1109/68.363386
- Bibcode:
- 1995IPTL....7...29N
- Keywords:
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- Amplification;
- Bit Error Rate;
- Frequency Converters;
- Optical Communication;
- Semiconductor Lasers;
- Signal Processing;
- Laser Applications;
- Light Amplifiers;
- Stability;
- Lasers and Masers