Title :
Broadband uniform wavelength conversion and time compression of WDM channels
Author :
Shoaie, Mohammad Amin ; Vedadi, Armand ; Bres, Camille-Sophie
Author_Institution :
Photonic Syst. Lab., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
A scheme based on 2-pump OPA is proposed for uniform wavelength conversion and optimized compression. We show 4.7-fold compression over 32 nm range resulting in Gaussian pulses from sinusoidal modulation and enabling simultaneous compression of WDM channels for granularity adaptation.
Keywords :
optical communication; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 2-pump OPA; Gaussian pulses; WDM channels; broadband uniform wavelength conversion; granularity adaptation; sinusoidal modulation; time compression; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Shape; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
