Demonstration of feasibility of a complete 160Â Gbit/s OTDM system including all-optical 3R

A complete 160 Gbit/s single-channel OTDM system experiment is presented. The OTDM system includes all-optical transmitter, 3R (Retiming, Reshaping, and Reamplification), and receiver. Performance measurements of the single subsystems are also reported. Finally Q-factor measures verify the effectiveness of the whole system.