A quantum-mechanical study of optical regenerators based on nonlinear-loop mirrors

被引：4

作者：

D'Ariano, GM

Kumar, P

机构：

[1] Univ Pavia, Dipartimento Fis, I-27100 Pavia, Italy

[2] Northwestern Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Evanston, IL 60208 USA

来源：

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS | 1998年 / 10卷 / 05期

关键词：

nonlinear optics; optical fiber communications; optical Kerr effect; optical repeaters; optical switches; quantum theory; time-division multiplexing;

D O I：

10.1109/68.669331

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

We present a quantum-mechanical analysis of a nonlinear interferometer that achieves optical switching via cross-phase modulation (XPM) resulting from the Kerr effect. We show how it performs as a very precise optical regenerator, highly improving the transmitted bit-error rate (BER) in the presence of loss.

引用

页码：699 / 701

页数：3

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