Polarization-insensitive widely tunable wavelength converter based on four-wave mixing in a dispersion-flattened nonlinear photonic Crystal fiber

Author

Chow, K.K. ; Shu, C. ; Lin, Chinlon ; Bjarklev, A.

Author_Institution

Depts. of Electron. Eng. & Inf. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong Shatin, China

Volume

17

Issue

3

fYear

2005

fDate

3/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

624

Lastpage

626

Abstract

Polarization-insensitive widely tunable wavelength conversion has been demonstrated using four-wave mixing in a 64-m-long dispersion-flattened nonlinear photonic crystal fiber. A 3-dB conversion range over 40 nm (1535-1575 nm) is obtained with a flat conversion efficiency of -16 dB and a polarization sensitivity of less than 0.3 dB. The measured power penalty is less than 1 dB for a 10-Gb/s converted nonreturn-to-zero signal at 10^-9 bit-error rate.

Keywords

error statistics; multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical tuning; optical wavelength conversion; photonic crystals; 10 Gbit/s; 1535 to 1575 nm; 64 m; bit-error rate; dispersion-flattened nonlinear photonic crystal fiber; flat conversion efficiency; four-wave mixing; nonreturn-to-zero signal; polarization sensitivity; polarization-insensitive widely tunable wavelength converter; power penalty; Distributed feedback devices; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Four-wave mixing; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical wavelength conversion; Photonic crystal fibers; Power measurement; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength measurement; Four-wave mixing (FWM); photonic crystal fiber (PCF); wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.840929

Filename

1396035