Abstract
We demonstrate that the cross-gain compression (XGC) in a semiconductor
optical amplifier can produce effective return to zero (RZ)-to-nonreturn to
zero (NRZ) format conversion. This technique is experimentally investigated
at 10 and 40Gbit/s. At 10 Gbit/s, the format
adaptation allows for a very high pulsewidth increase, i.e., from 10 to 100
ps. The output 10 Gbit/s NRZ signal is transmitted on metro-like links with
no chromatic dispersion compensation.
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