All-optical wavelength conversion using absorption modulation of an injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diode

Author

Yoo, Hark ; Jeong, Yong Deok ; Won, Yong Hyub ; Kang, Minho ; Lee, Hyuek Jae

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Inf. & Commun. Univ., Daejeon, South Korea

Volume

16

Issue

2

fYear

2004

Firstpage

536

Lastpage

538

Abstract

A novel all-optical wavelength converter based on the transverse-magnetic (TM)-mode absorption modulation of a Fabry-Perot laser diode (FP-LD) is proposed and demonstrated. An FP-LD shows absorption nulls for TM mode probe beam, which are red-shifted by an additional optical pump injection. Using this, the transmission of the continuous-wave probe beam can be optically controlled and wavelength conversion is, thus, achieved. The proposed scheme is simple and cost-effective, and can be used for very wide-range wavelength conversion. Bit-error-rate measurements at 2.5 Gb/s were performed, and the power penalties of 2 and 6 dB were observed, respectively, for noninverted and inverted wavelength conversion.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; error statistics; light absorption; optical communication equipment; optical control; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor lasers; 2.5 Gbit/s; TM mode probe beam; TM-mode absorption modulation; absorption modulation; all-optical wavelength conversion; bit-error-rate measurements; continuous-wave probe beam; injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diode; inverted wavelength conversion; noninverted wavelength conversion; optical control; optical pump injection; power penalty; red shift; transverse-magnetic-mode absorption modulation; Absorption; Diode lasers; Fabry-Perot; Laser beams; Optical beams; Optical control; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Probes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.823090

Filename

1266482