Performance investigation of an IQ wavelength converter

Author

Yu, Runxiang ; Yi, Xingwen ; Kurumida, Junya ; Yoo, S.J.B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, CA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We recently proposed an IQ wavelength converter supporting multiple modulation formats. This paper presents wavelength conversion results for 20 Gb/s RZ-DPSK and 5 Gb/s NRZ-DQPSK and investigates the input dynamic range of the IQ wavelength converter.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; differential phase shift keying; integrated optics; optical fibre couplers; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; quadrature phase shift keying; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; IQ wavelength converter; NRZ-DQPSK; RZ-DPSK; SOA; bit rate 20 Gbit/s; bit rate 5 Gbit/s; differential phase-shift keying; differential quadrature phase-shift keying; external fused fiber couplers; multiple modulation formats; nested Mach-Zehnder interferometers; wavelength division multiplexing; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; modulation format; optical signal processing; wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2009. PS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3857-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3856-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2009.5307835

Filename

5307835