Title :
New modular SOA-based active-passive integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer and first standard mode 40 Gb/s all-optical wavelength conversion on the C-band
Author :
Dagens, B. ; Labrousse, A. ; Fabre, S. ; Martin, B. ; Squedin, S. ; Lavigne, B. ; Brenot, R. ; Nielsen, M.L. ; Renaud, M.
Author_Institution :
Alcatel R&I, Marcoussis
Abstract :
A new modular SOA-based integrated interferometer is presented: 40 Gb/s standard mode wavelength conversion is performed on the C-band with the 2-SOA´s device, while 8 dB input power dynamic range is shown with the 4-SOA´s version
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 40 Gbit/s; SOA; active-passive integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer; all-optical wavelength conversion;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
87-90974-63-8
