All-optical demultiplexing/shifting of 40-Gb/s OTDM optical signal using dual-pump wave mixing in bulk semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Tomkos, I. ; Zacharopoulos, I. ; Syvridis, D. ; Calvani, R. ; Cisternino, F. ; Riccardi, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Athens Univ., Greece

Volume

11

Issue

11

fYear

1999

Firstpage

1464

Lastpage

1466

Abstract

In this letter, we demonstrate all optical demultiplexing of a 40-Gb/s optical time division multiplexed signal with simultaneous wavelength shift of 19 nm (2.3 THz) using dual-pump wave mixing in a bulk semiconductor optical amplifier. Bit-error-rate measurements of the four demultiplexed 10-Gb/s channels together with eye diagrams are reported and optimization procedures for the operation of the demultiplexer/shifter are discussed,.

Keywords

demultiplexing; measurement errors; multiwave mixing; optical frequency conversion; optical pumping; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time division multiplexing; 2.3 THz; 40 Gbit/s; Gb/s OTDM optical signal; Gb/s optical time division multiplexed signal; all optical demultiplexing; all-optical demultiplexing; all-optical shifting; bit-error-rate measurements; bulk semiconductor optical amplifier; demultiplexed Gb/s channels; demultiplexer/shifter; dual-pump wave mixing; eye diagrams; optimization procedures; simultaneous wavelength shift; Demultiplexing; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.803080

Filename

803080