Verification of All-Optical Regeneration with Hybrid Modulation and with On-Off Keying Modulation with Return to Zero and Non-Return to Zero Coding

Abstract

In this work we study the non-linear effects through the analysis of the operating results of three alloptical 3R regeneration (re-amplifying, re-shaping and re-timing) under the effects of cross-phase modulation (XPM) and four-wave mixing (FWM), being a system with hybrid modulation and two other communication systems with modulation on-off keying (OOK) with return to zero (RZ) and non-return to zero (NRZ) coding. The main part of the 3R regeneration system proposed here is a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) composed of an acousto optical filter (AOF) and a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber (HNL-PCF), so the system proposed here was named 3R-MZIAOF regenerator. The comparison of the system results occurred through the variation of the input power variation from -10 dBm to 10 dBm for the link length of 121.3 km and transmission rate 10 Gbps. The results showed that the regeneration 3R scheme OOK-NRZ with AOF presented excellent values of bit error rate (BER) equal to 10-21 and quality factor (Q-Factor) equal to 9.4, when compared to a system with OOK-NRZ 3R regeneration and hybrid modulation.