Polarization-independent and contrast-ratio-enhancing module for all-optical wavelength shifting using SOAs

Author

Shieh, W. ; Huang, S.H. ; Willner, A.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

25 Feb.-1 March 1996

Firstpage

126

Lastpage

128

Abstract

Summary form only given. In this paper, we demonstrate a polarization independent and contrast-ratio-enhancing wavelength shifting module, which consists of two polarization-dependent semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). With proper polarization alignment, we perform 1 Gbit/s wavelength upshifting over 19 nm and reduce the power penalty for the shifter module from 5 dB to 1.5 dB and polarization dependence from 3.5 dB to 0.5 dB in comparison to a wavelength shifter compost of a single SOA.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical frequency conversion; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 1 Gbit/s; Gbit/s wavelength upshifting; WDM; all-optical wavelength shifting; contrast-ratio-enhancing module; polarization alignment; polarization dependence; polarization independent; polarization-dependent semiconductor optical amplifiers; power penalty; Bit error rate; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical saturation; Optical scattering; Optical wavelength conversion; Probes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communications, 1996. OFC '96

Print_ISBN

1-55752-422-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1996.907700

Filename

907700