Performance of a reconfigurable wavelength converter based on dual-pump-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier

被引：19

作者：

Tomkos, I ^{[1
]}

Zacharopoulos, I

Syvridis, D

Sphicopoulos, T

Caroubalos, C

Roditi, E

机构：

[1] Univ Athens, Dept Informat, Div Commun & Signal Proc, Athens, Greece

[2] Univ Athens, Dept Phys, Div Appl Phys, Athens, Greece

来源：

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS | 1998年 / 10卷 / 10期

关键词：

phase conjugation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength conversion; wave mixing;

D O I：

10.1109/68.720275

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

We report on a wavelength converter based on dual pump wave mixing in an 1-mm-long bulk semiconductor optical amplifier. Very high conversion efficiency (more than 0 dB) and signal-to-background-noise ratio (SBR) (16 dB), for large down- or up-wavelength shifts (30 mm) has been achieved using parallel polarized pumps with low optical power (-13 dBm), Orthogonal polarized pumps result in worse performance, having the advantage of polarization insensitivity for small wavelength spacing between them. The converter operates in a fixed input-tunable output or a tunable input-fixed output mode of operation. In each mode, the measured SBR is almost independent of the wavelength shift for either up- or down-conversion.

引用

页码：1404 / 1406

页数：3

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