All-optical mixer based on cross-absorption modulation in electroabsorption modulator

Author

Yu, Jianjun ; Jia, Zhensheng ; Chang, Gee Kung

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

17

Issue

11

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2421

Lastpage

2423

Abstract

We have proposed and experimentally demonstrated a novel method to realize nonlinear optical mixing based on cross-absorption modulation in an electroabsorption modulator. Our experimental results show that the local oscillator power and optical filtering play an important role on the receiver sensitivity of the up-conversion signal; furthermore, the wavelength span of larger than 20 nm for up-conversion signal can be obtained.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; microwave photonics; mixers (circuits); optical wavelength conversion; all-optical mixer; cross-absorption modulation; electroabsorption modulator; local oscillator power; optical filtering; up-conversion signal; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical wavelength conversion; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing; Cross-absorption modulation (XAM); nonlinear optical mixer; radio-over-fiber (ROF); wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.857241

Filename

1522340