Title :
Extinction ratio enhanced 80-Gbit/s wavelength conversion based on optimization of spectrum filtering
Author :
Xi Huang ; Yu Zhang ; Yin Zhang ; Huang, Dexiu ; Zhang, Yin
Author_Institution :
Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate extinction ratio improvement at 80 Gbit/s wavelength conversion using a single semiconductor optical amplifier cascaded with a delay interferometer and band pass filters. The output extinction ratio can be improved from 3.2 dB to 20 dB.
Keywords :
band-pass filters; light interferometers; optical communication equipment; optical filters; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; band pass filters; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; delay interferometer; extinction ratio; single semiconductor optical amplifier; spectrum filtering optimization; wavelength conversion; Extinction ratio;
Conference_Titel :
OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2009. OECC 2009. 14th
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4102-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4103-7
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2009.5214430
