All-optical frequency up-converter utilizing a four-wave mixing effect in a semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Hyoung-Jun Kim ; Ho-Jin Song ; Jang-Soo Chun ; Chul-Seung Park ; Jong-In Song

Author_Institution

Center for Distrib. Sensor Network, Gwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Gwangju

fYear

2008

Firstpage

108

Lastpage

110

Abstract

An all-optical frequency up-converter utilizing a four-wave mixing effect in a semiconductor optical amplifier is experimentally demonstrated. In order to characterize a spurious free dynamic range, the third-order inter-modulation distortion signal power is measured by a two-tone test. The spurious free dynamic range of the photonic frequency up-converter is 81 dB-Hz^2/3 for the optical LO power of -10 dBm and the optical IF power of -16 dBm. The scheme shows a positive conversion efficiency of 5.77 dB for the optical IF power of -22 dBm and the optical LO power of-13 dBm.

Keywords

intermodulation distortion; multiwave mixing; optical frequency conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; all-optical frequency up-converter; four-wave mixing; intermodulation distortion; optical LO power; semiconductor optical amplifier; signal power; spurious free dynamic range; Distortion measurement; Dynamic range; Four-wave mixing; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical mixing; Power measurement; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Millimeter Waves, 2008. GSMM 2008. Global Symposium on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1885-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1886-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GSMM.2008.4534571

Filename

4534571