Regeneration using an SOA-MZI in a 100-pass 10,000-km Recirculating Fiber Loop

摘要

We demonstrate all-optical regeneration in an SOA-MZI on a 10-Gb/s picosecond pulse train over 10,000 km in a 100-km recirculating loop. The bit-error rate after 100 loop-passes shows a 0.5-dB penalty.