Widely tunable polarization-independent all-optical wavelength converter using a semiconductor optical amplifier

被引：23

作者：

Mak, MWK ^{[1
]}

Tsang, HK

Chan, K

机构：

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

[2] Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Dept Informat Engn, Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

来源：

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS | 2000年 / 12卷 / 05期

关键词：

optical communication; optical frequency conversion; optical polarization; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA's); wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);

D O I：

10.1109/68.841274

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 a polarization-independent widely tunable four-wave mixing wavelength converter using polarization diversity and broad-band orthogonal pumps in a single semiconductor optical amplifier. The conversion -efficiency is nearly constant (less than 3-dB variation) over a 36-nm range with less than 0.34 dB polarization sensitivity. The power penalty at 10(-9) bit error rate for a 10-Gb/s signal is less than 0.9 dB.

引用

页码：525 / 527

页数：3

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