Wavelength conversion at 10 Gb/s by four-wave mixing over a 30-nm interval

Author

D´Ottavi, A. ; Spano, P. ; Hunziker, G. ; Paiella, R. ; Dall´Ara, R. ; Guekos, G. ; Vahala, K.J.

Author_Institution

Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy

Volume

10

Issue

7

fYear

1998

fDate

7/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

952

Lastpage

954

Abstract

We show that the use of a long semiconductor optical amplifier increases the error-free conversion interval of a four-wave mixing (FWM)-based wavelength converter. 30-nm wavelength down-conversion and 15-nm up-conversion have been obtained at 10 Gb/s. This result is a significant improvement over the previous best performance of a FWM-based wavelength converter and suggests that the full erbium-doped fiber amplifier bandwidth can be covered with FWM wavelength converters.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical frequency conversion; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; FWM wavelength converters; FWM-based wavelength converter; error-free conversion interval; four-wave mixing; four-wave mixing based wavelength converter; full erbium-doped fiber amplifier bandwidth; long semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength conversion; wavelength down-conversion; wavelength up-conversion; Bandwidth; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Filters; Four-wave mixing; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Spontaneous emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.681281

Filename

681281