Flexible and transparent waveband conversion using multiple-QPM LiNbO3 waveguides

Author

Song, Honghin ; Tadanaga, Osamu ; Umeki, Takeshi ; Tomita, Isao ; Asobe, Masaki ; Yamamoto, Shuto ; Mori, Kunihiko ; Yonenaga, Kazushige

Author_Institution

NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Atsugi, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

19-23 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate flexible waveband conversion covering the entire C-band using 8-peak-multiple-QPM-LN waveguides to solve the problem of wavelength contention in a waveband-switching node. The phase-transparent conversion of a 43 Gb/s RZ-DQPK waveband signal is also confirmed.

Keywords

lithium compounds; optical communication equipment; optical frequency conversion; optical modulation; optical phase matching; optical switches; optical waveguides; optical wavelength conversion; quadrature phase shift keying; LiNbO₃; QPSK; bit rate 43 Gbit/s; difference frequency generation; flexible waveband conversion; phase modulation; phase-transparent waveband conversion; quadrature phase shift keying; quasiphase matched waveguides; waveband-switching node; wavelength contention; Bit error rate; Optical frequency conversion; Optical waveguides; Phase modulation; Photonics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on

Conference_Location

Torino

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8536-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8534-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621404

Filename

5621404