Filter-free polarization insensitive wavelength conversion using a T-gate laser

Author

Lu, Chih-Cheng ; Wood, Colin E.C. ; Stone, Dennis ; Dagenais, Mario

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

30-31 Oct 1995

Firstpage

266

Abstract

In summary, we have demonstrated filter-free, polarization insensitive, wavelength conversion using a T-gate semiconductor laser. Wavelength conversion of a 250 Mb/s NRZ optical signal has been achieved with a 2.1 dB power penalty at 10^-9 BER and a detector sensitivity of -29 dBm. Future work in our laboratory will be conducted at 1.55 μm to ensure compatibility of the T-gate device with present high-speed optical communication system

Keywords

integrated optoelectronics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre polarisation; optical frequency conversion; semiconductor lasers; sensitivity; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.55 mum; 250 Mbit/s; NRZ optical signal; T-gate device; T-gate laser; T-gate semiconductor laser; compatibility; detector sensitivity; filter-free; filter-free polarization insensitive wavelength conversion; high-speed optical communication system; polarization insensitive; power penalty; wavelength conversion; Bit error rate; High speed optical techniques; Laboratories; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1995. 8th Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, Volume 1., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2450-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1995.484863

Filename

484863