All-optical modulation converter for On-Off Keying to Duobinary and Alternate-mark inversion at 42.6 Gbps

Author

Dailey, J.M. ; Power, M.J. ; Webb, R.P. ; Manning, R.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this paper we experimentally demonstrate an all-optical system incorporating a pair of hybrid-integrated semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) gates which translate RZ-OOK to RZ-DB or RZ-AMI at 42.6 Gbps. This scheme includes a wavelength conversion to arbitrary output wavelength and has potential for high level photonic integration, scalability to higher bitrates, and should exhibit regenerative properties.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; amplitude shift keying; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Mach-Zehnder interferometer gates; all-optical modulation converter; alternate-mark inversion; duobinary; high level photonic integration; hybrid-integrated semiconductor optical amplifier; on-off keying; to arbitrary output wavelength; wavelength conversion; Bit rate; Logic gates; Modulation; Optical filters; Optical wavelength conversion; Probes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943121

Filename

5943121