Cascaded wavelength conversion by four-wave mixing in a strained semiconductor optical amplifier at 10 Gb/s

Author

Lee, Robert B. ; Geraghty, David F. ; Verdiell, Marc ; Ziari, Mehrdad ; Mathur, Atul ; Vahala, Kerry J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Phys., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

9

Issue

6

fYear

1997

fDate

6/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

752

Lastpage

754

Abstract

We demonstrate for the first time cascaded wavelength conversion by four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier. Bit-error-rate performance of <10/sup -9/ at 10 Gb/s is achieved for two conversions of up to 9 nm down and up in wavelength. For two wavelength conversions of 5 nm down and up, a power penalty of 1.3 dB is measured. A system of two wavelength converters spanning 40 km of single-mode fiber is also demonstrated.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical frequency conversion; optical transmitters; quantum well lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 40 km; WDM; bit-error-rate performance; cascaded wavelength conversion; four-wave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical transmitters; power penalty; semiconductor optical amplifier; single-mode fiber; strained semiconductor optical amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Optical wavelength conversion; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.584979

Filename

584979