Wavelength-flexible optical signal conversion using a NOLM-based XPM circuit followed by a Brillouin-assisted notch-filtering technique

Author

Saruwatari, M. ; Tsuji, K. ; Onodera, N. ; Yamaguchi, T.

Author_Institution

Nat. Defense Acad., Yokosuka

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We propose a wavelength-flexible, optical signal conversion technique using a filter-free fiber-XPM circuit based on a propagation-diversity nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) together with a wavelength-independent PM-IM converter based on a Brillouin-assisted notch- filtering technique. With this method, stable and wavelength-flexible optical signal conversion has been successfully demonstrated at 10-Gbit/s.

Keywords

mirrors; notch filters; optical filters; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; 10 Gbit/s; Brillouin-assisted notch-filtering technique; NOLM-based XPM circuit; propagation-diversity nonlinear optical loop mirror; wavelength-flexible optical signal conversion; wavelength-independent PM-IM converter; Circuits; Fiber nonlinear optics; Filtering; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical propagation; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength converters; Brillouin filter; NOLM; Wavelength conversion; XPM;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2006. PS '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Heraklion, Crete

Print_ISBN

978-0-7803-9790-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7803-9790-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2006.4350157

Filename

4350157