Tunable all-optical wavelength conversion of 160 Gbit/s RZ signals based on cascaded SFG-DFG in PPLN waveguide

Author

Furukawa, Hideaki ; Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai ; Wada, Naoya ; Shinada, Satoshi ; Tsuboya, Hiroshi ; Miyazaki, Tetsuya

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commnun. Technol., Koganei, Japan

fYear

2006

fDate

5-10 March 2006

Abstract

We first report on error-free tunable all-optical wavelength conversion of 160 Gbit/s return-to-zero signals based on cascaded sum-frequency and difference-frequency generation in a periodically poled LiNbO₃ waveguide. The BER of less than 10^-9is achieved in 23 nm tuning range.

Keywords

error statistics; lithium compounds; optical fibre communication; optical frequency conversion; optical modulation; optical tuning; optical waveguides; optical wavelength conversion; 160 Gbit/s; BER; LiNbO₃; PPLN waveguide; RZ signals; all-optical wavelength conversion; cascaded SFG-DFG; difference-frequency generation; optical tuning; periodically poled LiNbO₃ waveguide; return-to-zero signals; sum-frequency generation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Signal generators; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006

Print_ISBN

1-55752-803-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2006.215664

Filename

1636695