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

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

101

Lastpage

103

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Group IV Photonics, 2009. GFP '09. 6th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1949-2081

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4402-1

Electronic_ISBN

1949-2081

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GROUP4.2009.5338345

Filename

5338345