• DocumentCode
    2056434
  • Title

    All-optical vestigial-sideband signal generation and pattern effect mitigation with an SOA based red-shift optical filter wavelength converter

  • Author

    Wang, J. ; Marculescu, A. ; Li, J. ; Zhang, Z. ; Freude, W. ; Leuthold, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of High-Freq. & Quantum Electron., Univ. of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate 40 Gb/s SOA-based wavelength conversion from a RZ into a vestigial-sideband RZ signal. SOA related pattern effects are successfully suppressed by proper choice of the red-shift optical filter.
  • Keywords
    optical filters; optical transmitters; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM; SOA based red-shift optical filter; all-optical vestigial-sideband signal generation; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; dense wavelength-division-multiplexed transmission; optical communication system; pattern effect mitigation; wavelength conversion; Band pass filters; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Optical wavelength conversion; Pulse measurements; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Shape; Signal generators; Signal processing; Wavelength measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Brussels
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2227-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2228-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729312
  • Filename
    4729312