Finisar Corporation

Kailight Photonics, Inc.

Sagie Tsadka

Shalva Ben-Ezra

Heider Naim Ereifej

Er'el Granot

Haim Chayet

Yinnon Stav

Nir Shachar

Heider Ereifej

A DPSK/DQPSK receiver includes an optical splitter that separates the received DPSK/DQPSK optical signal according to an optical power splitting ratio into a plurality of received optical signals. A plurality of optical filters passes a plurality of filtered received optical signals. A plurality of optical detectors generates a plurality of electrical detection signals, each with a power that is related to a power of a respective filtered optical signal. A plurality of amplifiers generates a plurality of amplified electrical signals. At least one electrical signal combiner combines the plurality of amplified electrical detection signals generated by the plurality of optical amplifiers into a combined reception signal.

Method and apparatus for demodulating and regenerating phase modulated optical signals

The invention consists of a system and method for regenerating and converting optical signals. The invention provides both '2R (i.e. reamplification and reshaping) and '3R' (i.e. reamplification, reshaping, and resynchronization (or retiming)) regeneration. The components of the inventive system include a tunable continuous wave (CW) laser source, an optical circulator, an semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), and a spectral filter that has a very sharp cutoff frequency. In alternative embodiments, the filter may be replaced with an interleaver that passes several wavelengths. A single interleaver may be used by several of the optical regenerators/converters described herein. Each regenerator uses a separate wavelength that is associated with a passband frequency of the single interleaver. During counter-propagation in the SOA, a CW signal from the CW laser is chirped by bits in an input signal. The chirped signal is then output to the filter, which blocks the original CW signal.

All-optical, tunable regenerator, reshaper and wavelength converter

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