Title :
Depolarization technique for wide-band polarization insensitive four-wave mixing wavelength conversion in a semiconductor optical amplifier
Author :
Yang, Taotao ; Shu, Chester ; Lin, Chinlon
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
Abstract :
A depolarization method for obtaining wide-band polarization insensitive wavelength conversion is proposed based on four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier. The 3 dB conversion bandwidth is 22 nm and the polarization dependence is less than 0.8 dB.
Keywords :
light polarisation; multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; depolarization; four-wave mixing; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength conversion; wide-band polarization insensitive; Four-wave mixing; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wideband;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1547992
