Title :
All-optical wavelength conversion of 80 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK using four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier
Author :
Han, Liuyan ; Hu, Hao ; Ludwig, Reinhold ; Schubert, Colja ; Zhang, Hanyi
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommun., Berlin
Abstract :
All-optical wavelength conversion of an 80 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK signal is demonstrated for the first time based on four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier. Error-free operation is successfully obtained.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical wavelength conversion; phase shift keying; semiconductor optical amplifiers; RZ-DQPSK; all optical wavelength conversion; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; error free operation; four wave mixing; semiconductor optical amplifier; Band pass filters; Four-wave mixing; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Acapulco
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1931-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1932-6
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688525
