ACTS: REPEAT

Full Name: Regeneration of Pulse Shape, Amplitude and Timing

Duration: 1/3/98-31/12/99 (Finished)

Partners:

• Alcatel Alsthom Recherche (France)
  Heinrich Hertz Institute (Germany)
  Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
  Linkoping Institute of Technology (Sweden)
  Ericsson Telecom B (Sweden)
  British Telecommunications plc (U.K.)
  Technical University Denmark (Denmark)

Objective:

• Development and realisation of devices for clock recovery and decision, based either on all-optical schemes or on electrical schemes for 10Gb/s and beyond.

INTEC's Role:

• To investigate both theoretically and experimentally the potential of a new optical decision circuit based on an interferometer with identical gain clamped semiconductor optical amplifiers in each arm (concept patented).