40 Gb/s 2R Burst Mode Receiver with a single integrated SOA-MZI switch

G T Kanellos; N Pleros; D Petrantonakis; P Zakynthinos; H Avramopoulos; G Maxwell; A Poustie

doi:10.1364/oe.15.005043

40 Gb/s 2R Burst Mode Receiver with a single integrated SOA-MZI switch

Opt Express. 2007 Apr 16;15(8):5043-9. doi: 10.1364/oe.15.005043.

Authors

G T Kanellos¹, N Pleros, D Petrantonakis, P Zakynthinos, H Avramopoulos, G Maxwell, A Poustie

Affiliation

¹ National Technical University of Athens--Photonics Communications Research Laboratory 9 Iroon Polytechniou Street, Zografou 15773--Athens, Greece. gkanel@mail.ntua.gr

PMID: 19532753
DOI: 10.1364/oe.15.005043

Abstract

We demonstrate a novel scheme for 2R burst mode reception capable of operating error-free with 40 Gb/s variable length, asynchronous optical data packets that exhibit up to 9 dB packet-to-packet power variation. It consists of a single, hybrid integrated, SOA-based Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (SOA-MZI) with unequal splitting ratio couplers, configured to operate as a self-switch. We analyze theoretically the power equalization properties of unequal splitting ratio SOA-MZI switches and show good agreement between theory and experiment.