All-optical multicast based on cavity-enhanced four-wave-mixing in semiconductor ring laser

Author

Lu, Dan ; Mezosi, Gabor ; Li, Bei ; Memon, Muhammad Irfan ; Wang, Zhuoran ; Sorel, Marc ; Jian, Shuisheng ; Yu, Siyuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Bristol, Bristol

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Reconfigurable all-optical multicast at multi-gigabit data rates has been realised using simultaneous multi-wavelength conversion based on cavity-enhanced four-wave-mixing in a monolithically integrated semiconductor ring laser. The scheme provides high efficiency, low power penalty, and cost-effectiveness.

Keywords

multicast communication; optical fibre communication; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; cavity-enhanced four-wave-mixing; monolithically integrated semiconductor ring laser; multigigabit data rates; reconfigurable all-optical multicast; simultaneous multiwavelength conversion; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber networks; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical saturation; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; (060.4255) Networks, multicast; (140.3520) Lasers injection-locked; (140.3560) Lasers, ring; (190.4380) Nonlinear optics; four-wave mixing; (200.4740) Optical processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2606-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-865-0

Type

conf

Filename

5032321