Title :
43Gbps wavelength converter with wide dynamic range of 14 dB
Author :
Ohata, Nobuo ; Miyahara, Toshiharu ; Saito, Takeshi ; Ishimura, Eitaro ; Yamatoya, Takeshi ; Aoyagi, Toshitaka ; Sugitatsu, Atsushi
Author_Institution :
Inf. Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kamakura, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrated experimentally a wavelength converter with a wide input power dynamic range of 14 dB for the nonreturn to zero format at 43 Gbps with an extinction ratio exceeding 12 dB.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; MZI; SOA; wavelength converter; wide dynamic range; Dynamic range; High speed optical techniques; Optical attenuators; Optical interferometry; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase modulation; Phase shifters; Probes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Dynamic range; SOA-MZI; Wavelength converter;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3829-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3830-3
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292163
