title: Noise suppression properties of an interferometer-based regenerator for differential phase-shift keying data.
abstract: We studied the amplitude and phase noise suppression properties of an all-optical regenerator for differential phase-shift keying data. A detailed analytical investigation is performed and compared with numerical simulations for different working points. The results show that both amplitude and phase can be regenerated. However, simultaneous amplitude and phase noise suppression is possible only if the phase degradation is stronger than the amplitude degradation, for instance, due to nonlinear phase noise.
authors.affiliation: Technische Universität Berlin, Fachgebiet Hochfrequenztechnik, Sekretariat HFT 4, Germany. elschner@ieee.org
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Elschner
authors.forename: Alessandro Marques
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: de Melo
authors.forename: Christian-Alexander
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Bunge
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Petermann