SOA Yields All-Optical Flexibility

fibers.org News, 24 Feb 2005 The Centre for Integrated Photonics (CIP) in the UK has unveiled a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) that, it claims, will provide a fundamental building block for next-generation WDM networks. The component, the SOA-NL-OEC-1550, has already been used successfully for wavelength conversion and 2R (reamplifying and reshaping) signal regeneration at 40 Gbit/s. Read the article