All-optical wavelength conversion at bit rates above 10 Gb/s using semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Joergensen, C. ; Danielsen, S.L. ; Stubkjaer, K.E. ; Schilling, M. ; Daub, K. ; Doussiere, P. ; Pommerau, F. ; Hansen, P.B. ; Poulsen, H.N. ; Kloch, A. ; Vaa, M. ; Mikkelsen, B. ; Lach, E. ; Laube, G. ; Idler, W. ; Wunstel, K.

Author_Institution

Center for Broadband Telecommun., Tech. Univ., Lyngby, Denmark

Volume

3

Issue

5

fYear

1997

fDate

10/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1168

Lastpage

1180

Abstract

This work assesses the prospects for high-speed all-optical wavelength conversion using the simple optical interaction with the gain in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) via the interband carrier recombination. Operation and design guidelines for conversion speeds above 10 Gb/s are described and the various tradeoffs are discussed. Experiments at bit rates up to 40 Gb/s are presented for both cross-gain modulation (XGM) and cross-phase modulation (XPM) in SOAs demonstrating the high-speed capability of these techniques

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical frequency conversion; optical transmitters; phase modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; WDM; all-optical wavelength conversion; bit rates; conversion speeds; cross-gain modulation; cross-phase modulation; design guidelines; high-speed all-optical wavelength conversion; high-speed capability; interband carrier recombination; semiconductor optical amplifiers; simple optical interaction; Bit rate; Frequency conversion; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2944.658592

Filename

658592