Dependence of nonlinear phase shift on cavity length of SOA for all-optical signal processing

Author

Tamanuki, T. ; Nakamura, S. ; Ueno, Yukiko ; Tajima, K. ; Ae, S. ; Mori, K. ; Hatakeyama, H. ; Sasaki, T.

Author_Institution

Networking Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Ibaraki, Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

23-28 March 2003

Firstpage

586

Abstract

The cavity-length dependence of the nonlinear-phase-shift of semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) phase shifters was experimentally investigated for a symmetric-Mach-Zehnder-type wavelength-converter for the first time. Studies of 42-GHz-cross-phase-modulation of SOAs showed that the phase-shift increased almost proportionally with active region length.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical modulation; optical phase shifters; optical wavelength conversion; phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 42 GHz; SOA; active region length; all-optical signal processing; cavity length dependence; cross-phase-modulation; nonlinear phase shift; semiconductor optical amplifier; symmetric-Mach-Zehnder-type wavelength-converter; National electric code; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Optical wavelength conversion; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003

Print_ISBN

1-55752-746-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2003.1248431

Filename

1248431