• DocumentCode
    2849494
  • Title

    80 Gb/s multicast wavelength conversion by XGM in a QD-SOA

  • Author

    Contestabile, G. ; Maruta, A. ; Sekiguchi, S. ; Morito, K. ; Sugawara, M. ; Kitayama, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We report effective all-optical multicast wavelength conversion exploiting cross gain modulation (XGM) in a QD-SOA. 80 Gb/s multi-conversion on four 400 GHz spaced wavelengths is demonstrated with moderate Q2 factor penalty.
  • Keywords
    amplification; modulation; multicast communication; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength assignment; QD-SOA; XGM; all-optical multicast wavelength conversion; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; cross gain modulation; frequency 400 GHz; Gain; Noise; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical variables measurement; Optical wavelength conversion;
  • 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.2010.5621527
  • Filename
    5621527