Title :
All-Optical Multi-Wavelength Conversion with Negative Power Penalty by a Commercial SOA-MZI for WDM Wavelength Multicast
Author :
Yan, Ni ; Jung, Hyun-Do ; Monroy, Idelfonso Tafur ; De Waardt, Huug ; Koonen, Ton
Author_Institution :
Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven
Abstract :
WDM wavelength multicast is demonstrated by all-optical multi-wavelength conversion at 10 Gb/s using a commercial SOA-MZI. We report for the first time simultaneous one-to-four conversion with negative power penalty of 1.84 dB.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; multicast communication; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM wavelength multicast; all-optical multiwavelength conversion; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; commercial SOA-MZI; negative power penalty; one-to-four conversion; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2007. OFC/NFOEC 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-831-4
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2007.4348422
