All-active dual-order mode Mach-Zehnder wavelength converter for power-efficient, co-propagative operation

Author

Janz, C. ; Poingt, F. ; Pommereau, F. ; Gaborit, F. ; Ottenwider, D. ; Guillemot, I. ; Dagens, B. ; Renaud, M.

Author_Institution

Alcatel Corp. Res. Centre, Marcoussis, France

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

20-24 Sep 1998

Firstpage

661

Abstract

Power-efficient wavelength conversion in the co-propagative configuration, with high input signal rejection, is reported using a novel all-active dual-order mode Mach-Zehnder wavelength converter. A dual-order mode Mach-Zehnder wavelength converter has been realised for the first time using exclusively active waveguides. Such an all-active implementation is highly advantageous from a fabrication effort point of view. Almost penalty-free conversion was obtained at 2.5Gb/s in the co-propagative mode, with high input signal rejection

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optoelectronics; optical communication equipment; optical frequency conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 2.5 Gbit/s; Mach Zehnder interferometers; WDM; active waveguides; all-active dual-order mode Mach-Zehnder wavelength converter; all-active implementation; fabrication effort; high input signal rejection; penalty-free conversion; power-efficient co-propagative operation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Bit error rate; Couplers; Extinction ratio; Optical coupling; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

84-89900-14-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.1998.732767

Filename

732767