Bit-rate-transparent optical RZ-to-NRZ format conversion based on linear spectral phase filtering

Reza Maram, Francesco Da Ros, Pengyu Guan, Kasper Meldgaard Røge, Michael Galili, Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, José Azaña
2017 Optical Fiber Communication Conference   unpublished
We propose a novel and strikingly simple design for all-optical bit-rate-transparent RZto-NRZ conversion based on optical phase filtering. The proposed concept is experimentally validated through format conversion of a 640 Gbit/s coherent RZ signal to NRZ signal.
doi:10.1364/ofc.2017.th4i.1 fatcat:7vx6yiijlncf3kfnezogfogoga