All-optical wavelength converter based on Er-doped laser cavity and intracavity LD amplifier

Author

Okamura, Haruo

Author_Institution

NTT Transmission Syst. Labs., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

12

Issue

1

fYear

1994

fDate

1/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

43

Abstract

An optical wavelength converter is proposed based on a laser cavity that has a laser-diode amplifier as an optically driven gain modulator and an Er-doped, slow-response gain medium. The device converts ASK signal wavelengths over ~8.7 nm. Though the converted NRZ data signal is inverted, it is amplified by 18 dB with its extinction ratios improved to nearly unity. Although the data rate converted in the experiment is no more than 0.5 Mb/s, high-gain planar-waveguide technology may reduce the cavity length and increase the data rate

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; optical waveguides; ring lasers; semiconductor lasers; 0.5 Mbit/s; ASK signal wavelengths; Er-doped laser cavity; all-optical wavelength converter; cavity length; converted NRZ data signal; data rate; extinction ratios; high-gain planar-waveguide technology; intracavity LD amplifier; laser-diode amplifier; optically driven gain modulator; ring laser cavity; slow-response gain medium; Extinction ratio; Linear discriminant analysis; Optical amplifiers; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical saturation; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.265732

Filename

265732