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Fiber loop optical buffers enable data storage for discrete time intervals and therefore appear suitable for applications in optical asynchronous transfer mode (OATM)-based networks where data are transmitted in cells of fixed length. In this paper, the feasibility and the limitations of optical data storage in a fiber loop optical buffer are studied theoretically and experimentally, A model of a fiber loop buffer, incorporating semiconductor laser amplifiers (SLA) as switching gates, is described. The two major interfering quantities are cross talk and amplified spontaneous emission of the SLA gates. To limit the impact of cross talk on the signal quality, an on/off ratio of the SLA gates of at least 30 dB is required. The paper describes the optimum operation conditions, which enable data storage for more than 100 circulations even for data rates in the range from 10 to 160 Gb/s

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The authors report 40 Gbit/s transmission over 434 km of standard fibre using polarisation insensitive mid-span spectral inversion, based on a polarisation diversity scheme with four-wave mixing in two semiconductor optical amplifiers

10 Gbit/s transmission experiments on standard fibre (16 ps/km/nm) and with >100 km amplifier spacing demonstrate that transmission lengths of 432 km for RZ and 218 km for NRZ modulation schemes are possible. Under comparable experimental conditions and in agreement with theoretical studies