Title :
Filter Assisted Wavelength Conversion With Quantum-Dot SOAs
Author :
Sygletos, Stylianos ; Bonk, Rene ; Vallaitis, Thomas ; Marculescu, Andrej ; Vorreau, Philipp ; Li, Jingshi ; Brenot, Romain ; Lelarge, François ; Duan, Guang-Hua ; Freude, Wolfgang ; Leuthold, Jürg
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Photonics & Quantum Electron., Univ. of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
fDate :
3/15/2010 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The nonlinear operation regimes of quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers (QD-SOAs) are investigated and the ideal filter providing the best all-optical wavelength conversion efficiency is derived theoretically. Results are confirmed by experiments with Q2-factors amounting to 16 dB.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical frequency conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; semiconductor quantum dots; Q2-factors; all-optical wavelength conversion efficiency; filter assisted wavelength conversion; ideal filter; nonlinear operation regimes; quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers; Frequency conversion; nonlinear optics; phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); ultrafast optics;
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2010.2040457