Highly performing wavelength converter based on dual pump wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Tomkos, Ioannis ; Zacharopoulos, I. ; Roditi, E. ; Syvridis, Dimitris ; Girardin, F. ; Occhi, L. ; Uskov, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Athens Univ., Greece

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1-4 Dec. 1998

Firstpage

71

Abstract

The dual pump four wave mixing (FWM) in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) has been proposed as a promising method to achieve high efficiency and signal to background noise ratio (SBR), specially for large wavelength shifts. In the present work experimental study and theoretical modeling of the mixing processes generating the converted signal will be presented. Moreover, the operation of the dual pump converter in a 10 Gb/s experiment will be demonstrated.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical frequency conversion; optical pumping; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; Gb/s experiment; WDM optical fibre communications; converted signal; dual pump wave mixing; highly performing wavelength converter; large wavelength shifts; mixing processes; semiconductor optical amplifier; signal to background noise ratio; Background noise; Bit error rate; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal generators; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4947-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1998.737738

Filename

737738