Self-pumped wide range wavelength converter

Author

Nogueira, R.N. ; Teixeira, A.L. ; Abe, I. ; da Rocha, J.F. ; Pinto, J.L.

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Inst., Aveiro Univ., Portugal

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

10-14 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

631

Abstract

A new broadband orthogonal pump (BOP) four wave mixing (FWM) wavelength conversion scheme was demonstrated. The implemented set up shown conversion efficiencies higher than -20 dB and with less than 3 dB variation, for different conversion wavelengths. It is also more stable and cost effective when comparing to other BOP FWM wavelength conversion techniques, due to the reduction of the number of devices needed. The tunability of the HiBi fibre ring cavity Bragg grating structure (FBGS) along with the bit-error rate measurements for this wavelength converter is under investigation and will be reported.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; birefringence; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical pumping; optical resonators; optical wavelength conversion; stability; wavelength division multiplexing; bit-error rate measurements; broadband orthogonal pump four wave mixing wavelength conversion scheme; conversion efficiencies; conversion wavelengths; cost effective; high birefringence fibre ring cavity Bragg grating structure; self-pumped wide range wavelength converter; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pumping; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7500-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2002.1159464

Filename

1159464