RZ to CSRZ format and wavelength conversion with regenerative properties

Author

Marculescu, Andrej ; Sygletos, Stylianos ; Li, Jingshi ; Karki, Dhanamaya ; Hillerku, David ; Ben-Ezra, Shalva ; Tsadka, Sagie ; Freude, Wolfgang ; Leuthold, Juerg

Author_Institution

Inst. for High-Freq. & Quantum Electron., Univ. of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A 40 Gb/s all-optical modulation format conversion from return-to-zero (RZ) to carrier suppressed return-to-zero (CSRZ) with simultaneous regenerative wavelength conversion is introduced relaying on a versatile scheme of a single SOA followed by a filter.

Keywords

band-pass filters; optical fibre networks; optical filters; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; all-optical modulation format conversion; band-pass filter; carrier suppressed return-to-zero format; optical filter; regenerative wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength conversion; Band pass filters; Bit rate; Filtering; Modulation; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Transfer functions; (060.1155) All-optical network; (230.7405) Wavelength conversion devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2606-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-865-0

Type

conf

Filename

5032728