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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729312
