Polarization-independent time-division demultiplexing using orthogonal-pumps four-wave mixing

Author

Wong, C.S. ; Tsang, H.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China

Volume

15

Issue

1

fYear

2003

Firstpage

129

Lastpage

131

Abstract

In this letter, we demonstrate a 40-Gb/s time-division demultiplexer (TDM) with simultaneous wavelength shift of 8.2 nm using polarization-diversity orthogonal-pumps four-wave mixing (FWM) in a single semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). Bit error rate (BER) of less than 10/sup -9/ has been achieved. The power penalty for a BER of 10/sup -9/ was 4 dB. Demultiplexing of a 10-Gb/s signal to 2.5 Gb/s with wavelength shift over 20 nm was also demonstrated successfully.

Keywords

demultiplexing; multiwave mixing; optical pumping; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 2.5 Gbit/s; bit error rate; demultiplexing; orthogonal-pumps four-wave mixing; polarization-diversity orthogonal-pumps four-wave mixing; polarization-independent time-division demultiplexing; power penalty; single semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength shift; Bit error rate; Demultiplexing; Four-wave mixing; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Time division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.805743

Filename

1159085