Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate regenerative amplification of 10-, 20-, and 40-Gb/s return-to-zero signals exploiting a simple scheme based on self-phase modulation (SPM) in a columnar quantum-dot (CQD) semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and the use of a red-shifted off-set filter. We study the signal Q 2-factor improvement as a function of the input power to the amplifier. We also report results using a quantum-well (QW) SOA for comparison. We find that the SPM-based regenerative amplification is only possible in the quantum-dot amplifier.
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