Characterization of the modulated ASE noise in an SOA-MZI wavelength converter

Author

Cao, S.-C. ; Cartledge, J.C.

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Centre, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

368

Abstract

The experimental results are obtained using an integrated all-active three-port semiconductor optical amplifier Mach Zehnder interferometric (SOA-MZI) wavelength converter. An advantage of using counter-propagating signals is that an optical filter is not required at the output of the wavelength converter. Based on a detailed experimental characterization of the modulated ASE, it has been shown that any subsequent filtering that takes place must be considered in setting the operating point of the wavelength converter

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; integrated optoelectronics; laser noise; optical communication equipment; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; superradiance; wavelength division multiplexing; SOA-MZI wavelength converter; all-active three-port semiconductor optical amplified Mach Zehnder interferometric wavelength converter; counter-propagating signals; modulated ASE; modulated ASE noise measurements; operating point; optical filter; wavelength converter; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical saturation; Optical wavelength conversion; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor device noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.969328

Filename

969328