High-speed wavelength conversion utilizing birefringence in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Stephens, M.F.C. ; Penty, Richard V. ; Asghari, Mehdi ; White, Ian H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys., Bath Univ., UK

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

348

Lastpage

349

Abstract

Summary form only given. This paper describes a novel technique whereby a mixture of cross-phase and cross-gain modulation effects in a birefringent semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) for WDM causes polarization rotation of a cw probe beam in the presence of a signal pulse, enabling the transmission of the probe through a polarizer to be controlled.

Keywords

birefringence; electro-optical modulation; optical frequency conversion; optical polarisers; optical rotation; optical transmitters; phase modulation; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; birefringence; birefringent semiconductor optical amplifier; cross-gain modulation effects; cross-phase modulation effects; cw probe beam; high-speed wavelength conversion; polarization rotation; polarizer; semiconductor optical amplifiers; signal pulse; Birefringence; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Optical wavelength conversion; Probes; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; 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

864772