All-optical modulation format conversion from NRZ-OOK to RZ-QPSK using integrated SOA Three-Arm-MZI wavelength converter

Author

Nissanka, Suresh M. ; Maruta, Akihiro ; Mitani, Shunsuke ; Shimizu, Katsuhiro ; Miyahara, Toshiharu ; Aoyagi, Toshitaka ; Hatta, Tatsuo ; Sugitatsu, Atsushi ; Kitayama, Ken-ichi

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Eng., Osaka Univ., Suita

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate an error-free all-optical 2times10.7 Gb/s NRZ-OOK to 10.7 Gsymbol/s RZ-QPSK modulation format conversion using a newly developed integrated SOA three-arm-MZI wavelength converter module.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; amplitude shift keying; integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; quadrature phase shift keying; semiconductor optical amplifiers; NRZ-OOK; RZ-QPSK; all-optical modulation format conversion; bit rate 10.7 Gbit/s; error-free all-optical transmission; integrated SOA module; three-arm-MZI wavelength converter; Energy consumption; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase shift keying; Probes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength conversion; (060.5060) Phase modulation; (070.4340) Nonlinear optical signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2606-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-865-0

Type

conf

Filename

5032691