Title :
Optimization of All-Optical Wavelength Converter Based on a Nonlinear Semiconductor Optical Amplifier and Delay Interferometer
Author :
Kim, Na Young ; Cheng, Ning ; Cartledge, John C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, Ont.
Abstract :
The effect of the SOA phase recovery time, and the DI delay and power splitting ratio on the performance of an SOA-DI all-optical wavelength converter in terms of extinction ratio and Q-factor is investigated. For input signals with practical duty cycles, the DI must be carefully designed to match the characteristics of the SOA
Keywords :
light interferometers; optical communication equipment; optical wavelength conversion; optimisation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Q-factor; SOA phase recovery time; SOA-DI all-optical wavelength converter; delay interferometer effect; extinction ratio; nonlinear semiconductor optical amplifier; optimization; power splitting ratio; Optical attenuators; Optical interferometry; Optical pulses; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Propagation delay; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation;
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
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2006.278992
