Efficient Ti:PPLN multi-wavelength converter for high bitrate WDM-transmission systems

Author

Suche, H. ; Schreiber, G. ; Lee, Y.L. ; Quiring, V. ; Ricken, R. ; Sohler, W. ; Paoletti, A. ; Carbone, F. ; Caccioli, D. ; Schiffini, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Phys., Paderborn Univ., Germany

Volume

6

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

42

Abstract

Wavelength conversion by cascaded difference frequency generation (cDFG) in a fully packaged Ti:PPLN (periodically poled lithium niobate) waveguide converter with an efficiency of -8 dB up to -3 dBm of converted output and simultaneous multichannel conversion without depletion has been demonstrated. A converted 40 Gbit/s RZ-channel has been transmitted error-free over 5×100 km of NZDSF (non-zero dispersion shifted fibre) without penalty.

Keywords

lithium compounds; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical frequency conversion; optical waveguides; optical wavelength conversion; titanium; wavelength division multiplexing; 100 km; 40 Gbit/s; 500 km; LiNbO₃:Ti; NZDSF; RZ-channel; WDM-transmission; cascaded DFG; cascaded difference frequency generation; multi-wavelength converter; nonzero dispersion shifted fibre; periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide; Bit rate; Frequency conversion; Laser excitation; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Packaging; Power generation; Wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6705-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2001.989040

Filename

989040