FROG characterisation of SOA-based wavelength conversion using XPM in conjunction with shifted filtering up to line rates of 80 GHz

Author

Clarke, A.M. ; Girault, G. ; Anandarajah, P. ; Guignard, C. ; Bramerie, L. ; Barry, L.P. ; Simon, J.C. ; Harvey, J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Dublin City Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

152

Lastpage

153

Abstract

The work we present here builds on recent work where we obtained 80 Gb/s error free performance using cross phase modulation (XPM) in an SOA in conjunction with a blue shifted bandpass filter. Here we present a detailed characterisation of this wavelength conversion scheme using a Frequency Resolved Optical Gating (FROG) measurement scheme for both red and blue shifted filtering. This type of characterisation has not been provided before to the best of our knowledge and is an important analysis firstly to achieve a full understanding of the gain and phase dynamics exploited by the wavelength conversion scheme presented and secondly to design a filter so that an optimum performance can be obtained

Keywords

band-pass filters; optical communication equipment; optical filters; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; spectral line shift; 80 Gbit/s; FROG characterisation; SOA-based wavelength conversion; XPM; blue shifted bandpass filter; cross phase modulation; frequency resolved optical gating measurement; Band pass filters; Filtering; Frequency conversion; Frequency measurement; Optical filters; Optical frequency conversion; Optical modulation; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9555-7

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9555-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2006.278919

Filename

4054101