All-optical wavelength conversion with large wavelength hopping by utilizing multistage cascaded SOA-based wavelength converters

Author

Matsuura, Motoharu ; Kishi, Naoto ; Miki, Tetsuya

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Univ. of Electro-Commun., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

18

Issue

8

fYear

2006

fDate

4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

926

Lastpage

928

Abstract

A novel broadband wavelength converter by multistage cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based wavelength converters is proposed. We have demonstrated, for the first time, broadband wavelength conversion in the wavelength range of 1320-1610 nm by using three-stage cascaded SOA-based wavelength converters with each different gain band.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 1320 to 1610 nm; all-optical wavelength conversion; broadband wavelength converters; multistage cascaded SOA; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength hopping; wavelength-division-multiplexing; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength division multiplexing; Nonlinear optics; optical frequency conversion; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.872305

Filename

1610659