All-optical inverted and noninverted wavelength conversion using two-cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Hamié, Ali ; Sharaiha, Ammar ; Guégan, Mikael ; Le Bihan, Jean

Author_Institution

Ecole Nat. d´´Ingenieurs de Brest, Lab. RESO, Brest, France

Volume

17

Issue

6

fYear

2005

fDate

6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1229

Lastpage

1231

Abstract

A two-cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier configuration in a counterpropagating topology is proposed for an all-optical wavelength conversion operation. The attractive issue of the proposed method is that the converted signal can be obtained simultaneously with an inverted and noninverted signal. The all-optical noninverted wavelength conversion feasibility is also demonstrated delivering an extinction ratio higher than 7 dB over a wide range of wavelengths.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; all-optical wavelength conversion; counterpropagating topology; extinction ratio; inverted signal; inverted wavelength conversion; noninverted signal; noninverted wavelength conversion; optical wavelength converters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; two-cascaded SOA; Erbium; Extinction ratio; Optical feedback; Optical fiber communication; Optical saturation; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal processing; Topology; Wavelength conversion; All-optical wavelength converter; counterpropagating operation; optical communication; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.846923

Filename

1432785