Abstract
We demonstrate all-optical 2R regeneration with a 90° optical hybrid and integrated MZI-SOA pairs for 10 Gb/s BPSK and 20 Gb/s QPSK with negative power penalty. Power penalty and OSNR improvements of 7 dB and 5 dB are shown with additive ASE noise.
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