Title :
Bit error rate performance for wavelength conversion at 20 Gbit/s
Author :
Wiesenfeld, J.M. ; Perino, J.S. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Glance, B.
Author_Institution :
Crawford Hill Lab., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
fDate :
4/29/1994 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Wavelength conversion at 20 Gbit/s, to longer and shorter wavelength, is achieved using cross gain-compression in a semiconductor optical amplifier. Quantitative performance is assessed from the bit error rate data at 20 Gbit/s, for the first time for any wavelength conversion scheme. For conversion of 10 nm to a shorter wavelength, the penalty is 2.6 dB
Keywords :
digital communication systems; error statistics; intersymbol interference; optical communication; optical frequency conversion; 20 Gbit/s; BER performance; ISI; bit error rate data; cross gain-compression; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength conversion;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19940470
