Gigabit-per-second all-optical 1300-nm to 1550-nm wavelength conversion using cross-phase modulation in a semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Lacey, J.P.R. ; Pendock, Graeme J ; Tucker, Rodney

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia

fYear

1996

fDate

25 Feb.-1 March 1996

Firstpage

125

Lastpage

126

Abstract

Summary form only given. In conclusion, we have demonstrated all-optical conversion of 1.25 Gbit/s data from 1300 nm to 1550 nm. The penalty for conversion was 2.4 dB at a BER of 10^-9. The wavelength converter demonstrated here potentially operates at high speed, with low input power and low polarization sensitivity.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical fibre polarisation; optical frequency conversion; optical modulation; phase modulation; semiconductor lasers; sensitivity; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.25 Gbit/s; 1300 to 1550 nm; WDM; all-optical wavelength conversion; cross-phase modulation; gigabit-per-second; high speed; low input power; low polarization sensitivity; nm wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifier; Bit error rate; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical sensors; Optical wavelength conversion; Probes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communications, 1996. OFC '96

Print_ISBN

1-55752-422-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1996.907699

Filename

907699