• DocumentCode
    355224
  • Title

    Wavelength conversion of 60-channel QPSK data using cross-gain compression in a semiconductor optical amplifier

  • Author

    Perino, J.S. ; Woodward, Sheryl L. ; Wiesenfeld, J.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Crawford Hill Lab., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    2-7 June 1996
  • Firstpage
    485
  • Lastpage
    486
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. We have demonstrated wavelength conversion of 60 QPSK channels from 1555 nm to 1520 nm via cross-gain modulation in a semiconductor optical amplifier. There is a tradeoff between conversion efficiency and distortion, as evidenced by BER floors from nonlinearities when higher input signal powers were used to improve the output optical modulation depth.
  • Keywords
    optical frequency conversion; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; semiconductor lasers; BER; conversion efficiency; cross-gain compression; distortion; multi-channel QPSK data; nonlinearity; optical modulation depth; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength conversion; Chirp; Extinction ratio; Optical amplifiers; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Power amplifiers; Probes; Quadrature phase shift keying; Signal analysis; Signal restoration;
  • 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
    864961