Tunable DPSK Wavelength Converter Using an SOA-MZI Monolithically Integrated with a Sampled-Grating Distributed Bragg Reflector

Author

Mable P. Fok;Joseph A. Summers;Milan L. Masanovic;Chester Shu;Daniel J. Blumenthal

Author_Institution

Department of Electronic Engineering and Center for Advanced Research in Photonics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N. T, Hong Kong

fYear

2007

fDate

6/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Wavelength converters play an important role in wavelength routed optical networks. Among these, an SOA-MZI based wavelength converter monolithically integrated with a tunable sampled-grating distributed Bragg reflector (SG-DBR) laser for amplitude shifted keying (ASK) signals. The integration of a tunable laser with the SOA-MZI enhances the reliability, the efficiency and the performance of the wavelength conversion process. In this work, we demonstrate 10-Gb/s DPSK wavelength conversion using a tunable SG-DBR laser-integrated SOA-MZI wavelength converter.

Keywords

"Differential quadrature phase shift keying","Distributed Bragg reflectors","Optical wavelength conversion","Tunable circuits and devices","Decoding","Amplitude shift keying","Fiber lasers","Probes","Wavelength conversion","Photonics"

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0930-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386414

Filename

4386414