Title :
All-optical OOK-to-16QAM format conversion by using SOA-MZI wavelength converters
Author :
Mishina, Ken ; Kono, Tomonori ; Maruta, Akihiro ; Kitayama, Ken-ichi
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Eng., Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan
Abstract :
We propose a novel all-optical NRZ-OOK/RZ-16QAM modulation format converter using parallelized SOA-MZIs and show the feasibility of the proposed scheme by numerical simulation at 10 GSymbol/s.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; amplitude shift keying; numerical analysis; optical communication equipment; quadrature amplitude modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; MZI; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; SOA; all-optical OOK-to-16QAM format conversion; numerical simulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength converters; Binary phase shift keying; Numerical simulation; Optical fiber communication; Optical modulation; 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.2012.6276714