Demonstration of 8 error-free cascades of 2R NRZ SOAMZI wavelength converter

Author

Apostolopoulos, D. ; Klonidis, D. ; Zakynthinos, P. ; Vyrsokinos, K. ; Pleros, N. ; Tomkos, I. ; Avramopoulos, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We show 8 error-free cascades of a 2R SOA-MZI, 10 Gb/s NRZ wavelength converter. It uses a novel push-pull arrangement with an additional CW signal to differentially bias the MZI SOAs and reduce jitter accumulation.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; jitter; optical fibre communication; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 2R SOA-MZI; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; NRZ wavelength converter; additional CW signal; error-free cascade; jitter reduction; push-pull arrangement; semiconductor optical amplifier; Clocks; Computer errors; Electrooptic modulators; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical fiber communication; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Timing jitter; Wavelength conversion; (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (230.1150) All-optical devices; (250.5980) Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers;

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

5032729