Title :
Increased speed of semiconductor optical amplifier wavelength converter at multiple channels using Fabry-Perot and microelectromechanical filters
Author :
Mahgerefteh, D. ; Cho, P.S. ; Tayebati, Parviz
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD
fDate :
3/18/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A Fabry-Perot optical discriminator is used to reduce the pattern dependence of a semiconductor optical amplifier wavelength converter at 10 Gbit/s. In conjunction with a voltage tunable microelectromechanical bandpass filter, this allows a reduction of conversion penalty for multiple wavelength channels
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; band-pass filters; interference filters; laser beam applications; micromechanical devices; optical communication equipment; optical tuning; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 10 Gbit/s; Fabry-Perot filters; Fabry-Perot optical discriminator; SOA wavelength converter; conversion penalty reduction; microelectromechanical filters; multiple channels; multiple wavelength channels; pattern dependence reduction; semiconductor optical amplifier; voltage tunable MEMS bandpass filter;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19990318
