Simultaneous inverted and non-inverted wavelength conversions with 2R regeneration based on nonlinear polarization rotation of SOA

Author

Fu, Songnian ; Zhong, Wen-De ; Shum, P. ; Wen, Yang Jing

Author_Institution

Sch. of EEE, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore

fYear

2008

fDate

4-7 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Simultaneous inverted and non-inverted wavelength conversions (WCs) at 10 Gb/s with 2R regeneration are demonstrated using nonlinear polarization rotation in an SOA. A power penalty reduction of 1.2 dB for inverted WC and 0.8 dB for non-inverted WC is obtained at a BER of 10^-9.

Keywords

error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical repeaters; optical rotation; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 2R regeneration; BER; SOA; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; inverted wavelength conversion; noninverted wavelength conversion; nonlinear polarization rotation; power penalty reduction; Bit error rate; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio; Semiconductor optical amplifier; all-optical regeneration; nonlinear polarization rotation; wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2008. PS 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sapporo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4326-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-4-8855-2228-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2008.4804210

Filename

4804210