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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-772-5
