Title :
First demonstration of WDM-enabled all-optical wavelength conversion with a SOA and a 2nd order micro-ring resonator ROADM
Author :
Stamatiadis, C. ; Petrantonakis, D. ; Bakopoulos, P. ; Kehayas, E. ; Zakynthinos, P. ; Kouloumentas, Ch ; Stampoulidis, L. ; Dekker, R. ; Klein, E.J. ; Avramopoulos, H.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens
Abstract :
We present the RAWC, the first Ring Resonator Assisted Wavelength Converter employing a SOA and a tunable, Si3N4-SiO2 micro-ring resonator ROADM. We demonstrate inverted, non-inverted and WDM-enabled wavelength conversion with low power penalties.
Keywords :
optical communication; wavelength division multiplexing; ROADM; WDM; microring resonator; wavelength conversion; Band pass filters; Filtering; Optical filters; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Optical wavelength conversion; Photonics; Resonator filters; Scanning electron microscopy; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; (060.4510) Optical communications; (230.7405) Wavelength conversion devices;
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
