Fast tunable wavelength converter with hopping-mode suppression based on GCSR laser and fine digital driver

Author

Tang, Y.L. ; Hong, X.B. ; Cao, X.Y. ; Zhao, Z.R. ; Zhao, L.J. ; Wang, W. ; Wu, J. ; Lin, J.T.

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Opt. Commun. & Lightwave Technol., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

8-10 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

527

Lastpage

530

Abstract

Fast tunable wavelength converter based on a GCSR laser and a digital driver is demonstrated in this paper. The wavelength coverage of the GCSR laser is over 40 nm. Hopping-mode wavelengths generated during tuning process are suppressed. Experimental results show that the shortest tuning time is within 6 ns of wavelength coverage 6.6 nm and the suppression ratio of the hopping-mode is 40 dB.

Keywords

lasers; optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; GCSR laser; fast tunable wavelength converter; fine digital driver; hopping-mode suppression; hopping-mode wavelengths; optical fiber networks; shortest tuning time; suppression ratio; wavelength coverage; wavelength division multiplexing; All-optical networks; Field programmable gate arrays; Gratings; Laser theory; Laser tuning; Optical design; Optical tuning; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor lasers; Tunable circuits and devices; GCSR; Wavelength Converter; all-optical network; hopping-mode wavelength;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2009. APCC 2009. 15th Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4784-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4785-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.2009.5375577

Filename

5375577