Title :
Continuously tunable wavelength converter by four-wave mixing in SBS suppressed highly nonlinear fibre
Author :
Petit, Stephane ; Kurosu, Takayuki ; Takahashi, Masaharu ; Yagi, Takeshi ; Namiki, Shu
Author_Institution :
Network Photonics Res. Center, Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol., Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
A simple and efficient continuously tunable wavelength converter for any arbitrary input and output wavelengths is presented. Conversion efficiency higher than -5-dB over 30-nm, owing to a dispersion-decreasing highly nonlinear fibre with stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) suppressed by distributed strain, is reported.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; optical tuning; optical wavelength conversion; stimulated Brillouin scattering; SBS suppression; continuously tunable wavelength converter; dispersion-decreasing fibre; distributed strain; four-wave mixing; high-nonlinear fibre; stimulated Brillouin scattering; wavelength conversion efficiency;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2009.9044
