Low Penalty Uniformly Tunable Wavelength Conversion Without Spectral Inversion Over 30 nm Using SBS-Suppressed Low-Dispersion-Slope Highly Nonlinear Fibers

Author

Petit, Stéphane ; Kurosu, Takayuki ; Takahashi, Masanori ; Yagi, Takeshi ; Namiki, Shu

Author_Institution

Network Photonics Res. Center, Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol. (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

Volume

23

Issue

9

fYear

2011

fDate

5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

546

Lastpage

548

Abstract

We demonstrate a simple and efficient cascaded operation of parametric wavelength conversion at 43 Gb/s by four-wave mixing for arbitrary input and output wavelengths over 30 nm, using SBS-suppressed low-dispersion-slope highly nonlinear fibers with a power penalty below 0.7 dB.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical wavelength conversion; stimulated Brillouin scattering; SBS-suppressed low-dispersion-slope highly nonlinear fibers; bit rate 43 Gbit/s; four-wave mixing; power penalty; spectral inversion; stimulated Brillouin scattering; uniformly tunable wavelength conversion; Bit error rate; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical wavelength conversion; Scattering; Wavelength measurement; Four-wave mixing (FWM); highly nonlinear fibers (HNLFs); nonlinear optics; stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS); wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2112344

Filename

5709973