Widely tunable 10 Gbit/s separate absorption and modulation Mach-Zehnder wavelength converter

Author

Tauke-Pedretti, A. ; Dummer, M. ; Barton, J.S. ; Sysak, M.N. ; Raring, J.W. ; Klamkin, J.W. ; Coldren, L.A.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. & Mater. Depts., Univ. of California, CA

Volume

43

Issue

10

fYear

2007

Firstpage

584

Lastpage

585

Abstract

A fully monolithic separate absorption and modulation region wavelength converter requiring no bias tees has been fabricated. The device consists of a transmitter comprising a sampled-grating DBR laser and series-push-pull Mach-Zehnder modulator, and a receiver composed of a linear semiconductor optical amplifier and a quantum well pin photodetector. The wavelength converter has a 13 GHz bandwidth and demonstrates error-free operation at 10 Gbit/s with unity gain

Keywords

Bragg gratings; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; integrated optoelectronics; light absorption; optical receivers; optical transmitters; optical wavelength conversion; photodetectors; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 10 Gbit/s; 13 GHz; Mach-Zehnder wavelength converter; fully monolithic separate absorption region; linear semiconductor optical amplifier; modulation region; quantum well pin photodetector; sampled-grating DBR laser; series-push-pull Mach-Zehnder modulator;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:20070810

Filename

4202064