• DocumentCode
    2060475
  • Title

    Tunable optical wavelength conversion of a 10 Gb/s OFDM data signal using a periodically-poled lithium niobate waveguide

  • Author

    Wu, Xiaoxia ; Peng, Wei-Ren ; Arbab, Vahid R. ; Willner, Alan E.

  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate tunable wavelength conversion of 10 Gb/s RF-tone assisted OFDM signal with high conversion efficiency over ~30 nm tuning range using a PPLN waveguide. A penalty of < 3 dB is obtained after wavelength conversion with different QAM sizes and subcarrier numbers.
  • Keywords
    OFDM modulation; optical communication; quadrature amplitude modulation; waveguides; OFDM data signal; QAM sizes; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; periodically-poled lithium niobate waveguide; quadrature amplitude modulation; subcarrier numbers; tunable optical wavelength conversion; tuning range; Band pass filters; Lithium niobate; OFDM; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Signal generators; Wavelength conversion;
  • 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.2008.4729471
  • Filename
    4729471