Wavelength converter-reshaper operating at 10 Gbit/s in dispersion shifted fibre

Author

Curti, Franco ; Tosi-Beleffi, Giorgio Maria ; Matera, Francesco

Author_Institution

Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

29 June-3 July 2003

Firstpage

193

Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally a wavelength converter-reshaper, operating at 10 Gbit/s, in a dispersion shifted optical fibre; due to the Kerr nonlinearity, it is able to generate a large number of signal replicas that permit the ITU-grid to be covered. We performed transmission experiments on the converted signals, by using an installed cable encompassing G.652, G.653 and G.655 fibres, and also polarization insensitive conversion by using a counterpropagating loop configuration.

Keywords

error statistics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical wavelength conversion; 10 Gbit/s; 50 km; BER; G.652 fibres; G.653 fibres; G.655 fibres; Kerr nonlinearity; counterpropagating loop configuration; dispersion shifted fibre; dispersion shifted optical fibre; polarization insensitive conversion; wavelength converter-reshaper; Chirp modulation; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical wavelength conversion; Pump lasers; Signal generators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2003. Proceedings of 2003 5th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7816-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2003.1263180

Filename

1263180