DocumentCode
1979722
Title
Novel all-optical NRZ wavelength conversion employing SOA-based Sagnac interferometer
Author
Xu, Lei ; Baby, Vaighese ; Glesk, Ivan ; Prucnal, PAul R.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
Volume
2
fYear
2004
fDate
16-21 May 2004
Abstract
SOA-based Sagnac interferometers are traditionally regarded as optical RZ signal processing units. We first analyze and demonstrate NRZ wavelength conversion by introducing an interference bias for the Sagnac loop caused by the polarization control.
Keywords
Sagnac interferometers; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; Sagnac interferometer; all-optical NRZ wavelength conversion; interference bias; optical RZ signal processing units; polarization control;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-777-6
Type
conf
Filename
1360964
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