Strong improvement in optical signal regeneration and noise reduction through asymmetric biasing of Mach-Zehnder interferometric all optical wavelength converters

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Gyselings, T [1 ]
Morthier, G [1 ]
Baets, R [1 ]
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[1] State Univ Ghent, IMEC, Dept Informat Technol, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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We demonstrate that a small shift in one of the bias currents of a Mach-Zehnder Interferometric All Optical Wavelength Converter reduces the BER drastically, without changing the bandwidth. A better optical signal regeneration nod noise reduction is obtained.
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