Abstract
In future optical communication networks, all-optical signal processing will play an important role. For example, signal transmission in a complex fibre network with many switching nodes requires the development of wavelength converters, optical regenerators etc.. There are very few publications like [1], where a complete all-optical regeneration, containing clocked decision as well as clock recovery has been performed. On the other hand there are many contributions on signal regeneration without clock recovery or with electronic clock recovery [2] and also on all-optical clock recovery [3-5], One difficulty is here to achieve the compatibility between the all-optically created clock signal and the all optical decision element.
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