Title :
Photonic frequency up-conversion using directly modulated RSOA and delay interferometer
Author :
Al-Qazwini, Zaineb ; Hoon Kim
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
We report on a cost-effective photonic frequency up-conversion system using a directly modulated reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) and a delay interferometer (DI). We demonstrate that the use of a DI improves the system bandwidth by a factor of ~3.
Keywords :
delays; light interferometers; microwave photonics; optical communication equipment; optical frequency conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; delay interferometer; directly modulated RSOA; photonic frequency upconversion system; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier; Bandwidth; Frequency conversion; Frequency modulation; Optical attenuators; Optical interferometry; Photonics; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0976-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8884
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2012.6276697
