Title :
Investigation of SOA-based wavelength conversion at 80 Gb/s using bandpass filtering
Author :
Bramerie, L. ; Clark, Andrew ; Girault, G. ; Lobo, S. ; Gay, M. ; Guignard, C. ; Roncin, V. ; Kennedy, B. ; Maguire, P. ; Feve, S. ; Clouet, B. ; Ginovart, F. ; Barry, L.P. ; Simon, J.C.
Author_Institution :
ENSSAT, CNRS UMR 6082 FOTON, Lannion
Abstract :
This paper presents a simple and effective 80 Gb/s wavelength conversion scheme by using Cross Gain Modulation in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA) in conjunction with filtering the blue shifted component of the probe spectrum to give a non-inverted output signal.
Keywords :
band-pass filters; optical filters; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA-based wavelength conversion; bandpass filtering; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; blue shifted component; cross gain modulation; noninverted output signal; probe spectrum; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Band pass filters; (060.4510) Optimal communications; (070.4340) Nonlinear optical signal processing; (250.5980) Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627878
