Investigation on Characteristics and the Improving Method of Double Loop Optical Buffer

Abstract

We establish an equivalent cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier system model to analyze the characteristics of the double loop optical buffer (DLOB). The theoretical analysis finds that the performance of the DLOB can be improved by inserted amplifying process in an interval of some cycles. The experiment demonstrates that the buffered cycles can be improved from 20 to 50 and the bit error rate is less than 10 −9 by inserting amplifying process in an interval of about 10 cycles.