• DocumentCode
    1833527
  • 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
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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;
  • 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
    5033003