• DocumentCode
    2538741
  • Title

    A NRZ wavelength converter based on a nonlinear polarization switch cascading a reshaping delayed interferometer

  • Author

    Zhao, Xiaofan ; Lou, Caiyun ; Pan, Shilong

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    4-8 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    102
  • Lastpage
    103
  • Abstract
    A nonlinear polarization switch cascading a delayed interferometer is proposed and demonstrated as an all-optical wavelength converter (WC) for NRZ systems. The converted signal has a negative power penalty after 25 km transmission.
  • Keywords
    light transmission; optical wavelength conversion; NRZ wavelength converter; all-optical wavelength converter; nonlinear polarization switch; reshaping delayed interferometer; Bit error rate; Chirp; Optical control; Optical polarization; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Propagation delay; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Switches; Wavelength measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Belek-Antalya
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3680-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1092-8081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343449
  • Filename
    5343449