SNR improvement of four-wave mixing wavelength shifting by noise prefiltering in a semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Shieh, William ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

347

Lastpage

348

Abstract

Summary form only given. In this paper, we demonstrate a WDM fibre network noise prefiltering method using a bandpass filter before four-wave mixing. This approach is very robust, because the filtering is unaffected by drifting of the wavelengths of the input signals. Using this approach, we achieve all-optical wavelength shifting over 9 nm at 2.5 Gbit/s with low power penalty for a wide input-power dynamic range.

Keywords

band-pass filters; multiwave mixing; optical fibre networks; optical filters; optical noise; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 Gbit/s; SNR improvement; WDM fibre network noise prefiltering method; all-optical wavelength shifting; bandpass filter; four-wave mixing; four-wave mixing wavelength shifting; input signal wavelength drifting; input signals; low power penalty; noise prefiltering; semiconductor optical amplifier; wide input-power dynamic range; Band pass filters; Four-wave mixing; Noise robustness; Optical fiber filters; Optical noise; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

864771