Numerical study of ultra-high speed wavelength conversion using a Gain-Clamped SOA in combination with optical filtering

Author

Morthier, G. ; Oosterlinck, W.D. ; Sales, S.

Author_Institution

Ghent Univ., Gent

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Using numerical simulations, we demonstrate that wavelength conversion of 40 Gb/s and 160 Gb/s RZ signals is feasible using only a gain-clamped SOA (GCSOA) and optical filters. The signal is converted to the lasing wavelength of the GCSOA and no extra CW probe is thus required. The scheme is based on the optical filtering of the chirp of the lasing field induced by the input signal.

Keywords

chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; numerical analysis; optical filters; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; chirp modulation; gain-clamped SOA; numerical simulations; optical filtering; semiconductor optical amplifier; ultra-high speed wavelength conversion; Bit rate; Fiber nonlinear optics; Filtering; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical pulses; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; GCSOA; optical filtering; wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2006. PS '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Heraklion, Crete

Print_ISBN

978-0-7803-9790-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7803-9790-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2006.4350134

Filename

4350134