Cascaded wavelength conversions using four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Geraghty, David F. ; Lee, Robert B. ; Vahala, Kerry J. ; Koren, Uzi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Phys., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

fYear

1997

Firstpage

149

Lastpage

150

Abstract

Wavelength conversion in wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) communication systems would provide significant network performance improvement. Optoelectronic, cross-gain saturation, and cross phase saturation wavelength converters are candidate technologies that have been well characterized, however, they are not “transparent” to either bit-rate or modulation format. Complete transparency is offered only by ultrafast wave mixing techniques-in the present case four-wave mixing (FWM) in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical saturation; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; transparency; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM communication; bit-rate format transparency; cascaded wavelength conversion; cross phase saturation wavelength converters; cross-gain saturation; four-wave mixing; modulation format; network performance improvement; semiconductor optical amplifiers; ultrafast wave mixing techniques; wavelength-division multiplexed; Bit error rate; Distributed feedback devices; Four-wave mixing; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber polarization; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

1-55752-480-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1997.719770

Filename

719770