Demonstration of ultrafast all-optical wavelength conversion utilizing birefringence in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Stephens, M.F.C. ; Asghari, M. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Bristol Univ., UK

Volume

9

Issue

4

fYear

1997

fDate

4/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

449

Lastpage

451

Abstract

High-extinction-ratio wavelength conversion has been demonstrated in a semiconductor optical amplifier using a mixture of cross-gain and cross-phase modulation in a polarization rotation technique. 40-ps-wide pulses at 1311 nm have been generated using 47-ps, 5.7-mW peak-power input pulses at 1300 nm. Excellent agreement with experiment has been obtained using a computer model.

Keywords

birefringence; high-speed optical techniques; optical communication equipment; optical frequency conversion; optical modulation; optical rotation; phase modulation; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 1300 nm; 1311 nm; 40 ps; 47 ps; 5.7 mW; birefringence; computer model; cross-gain modulation; cross-phase modulation; high-extinction-ratio; polarization rotation technique; pulse generation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; ultrafast all-optical wavelength conversion; Birefringence; Optical polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical wavelength conversion; Probes; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Pulse shaping methods; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.559384

Filename

559384