10 Gb/s wavelength conversion using a widely tunable series push-pull photocurrent-driven transmitter

Author

Barton, Jonathon S. ; Tauke-Pedretti, Anna ; Dummer, Matt ; Sysak, Mathew N. ; Masanovic, Milan L. ; Raring, James ; Skogen, Erik J. ; Coldren, Larry A.

Author_Institution

Mater. & Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept, California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

17

Issue

9

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1902

Lastpage

1904

Abstract

Error-free operation at 10 Gb/s was demonstrated for a hybrid photocurrent-driven series push-pull Mach-Zehnder-based wavelength converter. Back-to-back power penalties of <1 dB for pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS) 2⁷-1 and <2.3 dB for PRBS 2³¹-1 were measured across the 37-nm wavelength tuning range of the sampled-grating distributed Bragg reflector.

Keywords

binary sequences; diffraction gratings; distributed Bragg reflectors; integrated optics; optical fibre communication; optical transmitters; optical tuning; optical wavelength conversion; photoconductivity; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; Mach-Zehnder-based wavelength converter; distributed Bragg reflector; error-free operation; photocurrent-driven transmitter; power penalties; pseudorandom binary sequence; push-pull transmitter; sampled-grating reflector; series transmitter; wavelength conversion; wavelength-division-multiplexed signals; widely tunable transmitter; Detectors; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Laser tuning; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices; Optical modulation; optical planar waveguide components; optical receivers; optical transmitters; photocurrent-driven wavelength conversion (PD-WC); photodiodes; quantum-well (QW) lasers; tunable lasers; wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.853024

Filename

1498897