Title :
RZ to NRZ data format and wavelength conversion using an injection locked laser diode
Author :
Chow, C.W. ; Wong, C.S. ; Tsang, H.K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
Abstract :
All-optical RZ-to-NRZ data-format and wavelength-conversion using a repetition-rate doubler and an injection-locked FP laser diode is demonstrated at 10 Gb/s. The power penalty was 2.5 dB at bit-error-rate of 10-9.
Keywords :
optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 2.5 dB; bit-error-rate; injection-locked FP laser diode; nonreturn-to-zero data format; power penalty; repetition-rate doubler; return-to-zero data format; wavelength conversion; Arm; Couplers; Diode lasers; Optical pulse generation; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Polarization mode dispersion; Probes; Space vector pulse width modulation; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7888-1
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2003.1252880
