A holey fiber based WDM wavelength converter incorporating an apodized fiber Bragg grating filter

Author

Ju Han Lee ; Yusoff, Z. ; Belardi, W. ; Ibsen, M. ; Monro, T.M. ; Thomsen, B. ; Richardson, D.J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectronics Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Abstract

We demonstrate a tunable WDM wavelength converter based on XPM in just 6 m of highly nonlinear holey fiber and incorporating a precise, compression tuned apodized fiber-grating filter. We achieve broadband 10 Gbit/s wavelength conversion (/spl sim/20 nm) with a constant pulsewidth due to short device length and correspondingly reduced pulse walk-off effects.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; micro-optics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre filters; optical tuning; optical wavelength conversion; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 6 m; XPM; apodized fiber Bragg grating filter; broadband wavelength conversion; compression tuned apodized fiber-grating filter; constant pulsewidth; highly nonlinear holey fiber; holey fiber based WDM wavelength converter; reduced pulse walk-off effects; short device length; tunable WDM wavelength converter; Fiber nonlinear optics; Filters; Hafnium; Holey fibers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical pulse generation; Optical wavelength conversion; Probes; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1034481

Filename

1034481