A simple and robust 40-Gb/s wavelength converter using fiber cross-phase modulation and optical filtering

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

Volume

12

Issue

7

fYear

2000

fDate

7/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

846

Lastpage

848

Abstract

40-Gb/s return-to-zero data wavelength conversion is demonstrated using cross-phase modulation in an optical fiber with subsequent conversion of phase modulation to amplitude modulation using an optical filter. The scheme is potentially ultrahigh speed and can be made polarization independent.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical communication equipment; optical fibre filters; optical modulation; phase modulation; robust control; telecommunication network reliability; wavelength division multiplexing; 40 Gbit/s; amplitude modulation; cross-phase modulation; fiber cross-phase modulation; optical fiber; optical filter; optical filtering; phase modulation; polarization independent; return-to-zero data wavelength conversion; robust 40-Gb/s wavelength converter; ultrahigh speed; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical solitons; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase modulation; Robustness;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.853522

Filename

853522