Wavelength dependence and power requirements of a wavelength converter based on XPM in a dispersion-shifted optical fiber

Author

Öhlén, Peter ; Olsson, Bengt-Erik ; Blumenthal, Daniel J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

12

Issue

5

fYear

2000

fDate

5/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

522

Lastpage

524

Abstract

A 40-Gb/s wavelength converter based on cross-phase modulation in a dispersion-shifted fiber has been investigated through pulse measurements and simulation. The most important parameter is the dispersive walkoff, which makes the required input power wavelength dependent and determines the optical bandwidth. Simulations show the feasibility of the 160-Gb/s operation by using 2-ps pulses and a highly nonlinear dispersion-shifted fiber.

Keywords

optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; phase modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 160 Gbit/s; 2 ps; 40 Gbit/s; XPM; cross-phase modulation; dispersion-shifted optical fiber; dispersive walkoff; highly nonlinear dispersion-shifted fiber; input power; optical bandwidth; power requirements; pulse measurements; simulation; wavelength converter; wavelength dependence; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical packet switching; Optical solitons; Optical wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.841273

Filename

841273