Widely tunable all-optical wavelength converter using a fiber ring cavity incorporating a semiconductor optical amplifier

被引：7

作者：

Chow, KK ^{[1
]}

Mak, MWK ^{[1
]}

Shu, C ^{[1
]}

Tsang, HK ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Dept Elect Engn, Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

来源：

OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS | 2002年 / 203卷 / 1-2期

关键词：

four-wave mixing; wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA);

D O I：

10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01737-0

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We demonstrate wavelength conversion using broad-band orthogonal pumps four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier placed in a fiber ring cavity. The widely tunable all-optical wavelength converter operates with only one external pump laser. The wavelength-conversion efficiency has a variation smaller than 3 dB over a 40 nm. range. Our result shows that the converter can operate with any arbitrary input and output wavelengths within the range. The measured power penalty is only 1.5 dB for a 2.5 Gb/s signal at 10(-9) bit-error-rate. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：101 / 106

页数：6

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