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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1997
Pavel Viktorovich Mamyshev, Middletown, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
The specification relates to a method and apparatus for all-optical regeneration of return-to-zero (RZ) data streams. The effect of self-phase modulation (SPM) of a data signal passing through a nonlinear medium (NLM) creates spectral broadening in individual data pulses which are then subsequently filtered to pass a selected bandwidth centered at a frequency, .omega..sub.f, which is shifted with respect to the input data carrier frequency, .omega..sub.0. Since the degree of broadening of a pulse passing through the NLM is a function of the initial intensity of the pulse, noise in data 'zeros' (null values) possess insufficient intensity (providing incidental distortion pulse intensity attributable to accumulated process noise is less than a critical value) to cause the requisite amount of spectral broadening to encompass the selected filter bandwidth centered around .omega..sub.f, and the noise is subsequently suppressed. Conversely, noise (amplitude fluctuations) in data 'ones' (set values) possess sufficient intensity (providing input pulse intensity, including incidental distortion pulse intensity, is greater than a critical value) to cause the requisite amount of spectral broadening to encompass the selected filter bandwidth centered around .omega..sub.f, and that portion of the spectrally broadened pulse contained within the bandwidth centered around .omega..sub.f is subsequently passed.