• DocumentCode
    1956049
  • Title

    All optical shutter based on Raman-assisted four-wave mixing in dispersion shifted fiber

  • Author

    Xu, Lixin ; Wai, P.K.A. ; Tarn, H.Y. ; Lui, L.F.K. ; Demokan, M.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Photonics Res. Centre, Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hung Hom, China
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    23-27 Feb. 2004
  • Firstpage
    364
  • Abstract
    We demonstrated a 10 Gb/s all-optical shutter based on Raman-assisted four-wave-mixing in dispersion-shifted fiber. Improvement of more than 65 dB in the conversion efficiency and 26 dB in the signal-to-background ratio are obtained.
  • Keywords
    Raman lasers; multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; 10 Gbit/s; Raman-assisted four-wave mixing; all optical shutter; dispersion shifted fiber; signal-to-background ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-772-5
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1359286