Polarization- and interval-independent wavelength conversion at 2.5 Gb/s by means of bidirectional four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Contestabile, G. ; Ottavi, A.D. ; Martelli, F. ; Mecozzi, A. ; Spano, P.

Author_Institution

Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy

Volume

12

Issue

7

fYear

2000

fDate

7/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

852

Lastpage

854

Abstract

We report interval-polarization-independent wavelength conversion at 2.5 Gb/s using four-wave mixing in a single semiconductor optical amplifier. These results have been obtained with a dual-pump configuration in a bidirectional geometry. Bit-error-rate (BER) curves are reported for a conversion shifts of -1 and +1 THz. The signal polarization was automatically scrambled during the BER measurement. The penalty with respect to the back-to-back line is 2.4 and 1.6 dB, respectively.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical pumping; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 Gbit/s; BER measurement; automatically scrambled polarisation; back-to-back line; bidirectional four-wave mixing; bidirectional geometry; bit-error-rate curves; conversion shifts; dual-pump configuration; interval-polarization-independent wavelength conversion; polarization-independent wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; signal polarization; single semiconductor optical amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency conversion; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal processing; Stimulated emission; Wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.853524

Filename

853524