Polarization-insensitive wavelength conversion up to 10 Gb/s using four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Lin, L.Y. ; Wiesenfeld, J.M. ; Perino, J.S.

Author_Institution

AT&T Labs., Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

10-13 Nov 1997

Firstpage

96

Abstract

In this paper, we report on polarization-insensitive four wave mixing (FWM) wavelength conversion in a WDM optical fibre network using a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), with conversion range of 6.4 nm downshift to 4.8 nm upshift. The experimental setup is shown. The 1.55 μm SOA is polarization-insensitive with a bulk InGaAsP active region, 26 dB small-signal gain, and a saturation output power of 11 dBm

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; gallium compounds; indium compounds; multiwave mixing; optical fibre networks; optical frequency conversion; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 26 dB; InGaAsP; WDM optical fibre network; bulk InGaAsP active region; four-wave mixing; polarization-insensitive; polarization-insensitive four wave mixing; polarization-insensitive wavelength conversion; saturation output power; semiconductor optical amplifier; small-signal gain; Four-wave mixing; Gain; Optical fiber applications; Optical fiber polarization; Optical wavelength conversion; Power generation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; WDM networks; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3895-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1997.630535

Filename

630535