Cascaded operation of all-optical wavelength converters based on nonlinear optical loop mirror

Author

Attygalle, M. ; Wen, Y.J. ; Nirmalathas, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Vic., Australia

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

10-14 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

463

Abstract

We have demonstrated the cascaded operation of NOLM wavelength converters made of dispersion shifted fibre (DSF) through realistic simulation. No degradation of the signals is observed even after > 5 cascaded devices due to the regeneration functionality of the NOLM-WC. When employed in high bit rate transmission systems, the NOLM-WCs improves the signal quality in addition to wavelength conversion operation enabling long transmission distances without any opto-electronic conversions.

Keywords

mirrors; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical wavelength conversion; wavelength division multiplexing; DSF; all-optical wavelength converters; cascaded devices; cascaded operation; dispersion shifted fibre; high bit rate transmission systems; long transmission distances; nonlinear optical loop mirror; regeneration functionality; wavelength conversion operation; wavelength converters; Degradation; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber devices; Optical wavelength conversion; Photonics; Propagation losses; Q factor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7500-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2002.1159381

Filename

1159381