Title :
Compensation of gain saturation in SOA-gates by interferometric Mach-Zehnder wavelength converters
Author :
Danielsen, S.L. ; Joergensen, C. ; Hansen, P.B. ; Mikkelsen, B. ; Stubkjaer, K.E. ; Schilling, M. ; Daub, K. ; Dutting, K. ; Klenk, M. ; Idler, W. ; Doussiere, P. ; Pommerau, F.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electromagn. Syst., Tech. Univ., Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract :
Compensation of signal degradation in semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) gates for optical switch nodes using all-active integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometric wavelength converters is experimentally demonstrated at 2.5 and 10 Gb/s. More than 10 dB improvement of the dynamic range is obtained compared to a stand-alone SOA-gate.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; compensation; electro-optical switches; integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical frequency conversion; optical saturation; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 to 10 Gbit/s; SOA-gates; WDM; all-active integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometric wavelength converters; dynamic range; gain saturation; interferometric Mach-Zehnder wavelength converters; optical frequency conversion; optical switch nodes; signal degradation; stand-alone SOA-gate;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Oslo, Norway
Print_ISBN :
82-423-0418-1
