Title :
SOI platform for high speed all optical wavelength conversion
Author :
Voigt, K. ; Zimmermann, L. ; Winzer, G. ; Mitze, T. ; Petermann, K. ; Kreissl, J. ; Tangdiongga, E. ; Vyrsokinos, K. ; Stampoulidis, L.
Author_Institution :
Tech. Univ. Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
In this paper we present new design of an all-optical wavelength converter (AOWC) based on silicon-on-insulator platform. For that purpose we combine nonlinearities of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) with high finesse Mach-Zehnder filters, available in SOI-technology.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; optical design techniques; optical filters; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; silicon-on-insulator; SOI platform; Si; all-optical wavelength converter; high finesse Mach-Zehnder filters; high speed all optical wavelength conversion; optical design; optical nonlinearities; semiconductor optical amplifiers; silicon-on-insulator platform; Band pass filters; Chirp; Delay; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon on insulator technology;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics, 2009. GFP '09. 6th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4402-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1949-2081
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2009.5338345
