New wavelength converter for picosecond RZ pulses

Author

Ueno, Y. ; Nakamura, S. ; Tajima, K. ; Kitamura, S.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. & High-Frequency Device Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

20-24 Sep 1998

Firstpage

657

Abstract

We propose an RZ-pulse wavelength converter which has a very simple device structure. Ultrafast wavelength conversion at an extremely low input power is demonstrated at 10-40 GHz repetition rates. By using a new simple wavelength converter (DISC), we have demonstrated efficient ultrafast wavelength conversion of 10.5 to 42 GHz pulses from 1548 to 1560 nm

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; high-speed optical techniques; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 10.5 to 42 GHz; 1548 to 1560 nm; GHz repetition rates; RZ-pulse wavelength converter; WDM optical fibre communication; efficient ultrafast wavelength conversion; extremely low input power; optical wavelength converter; picosecond RZ pulses; simple wavelength converter; ultrafast wavelength conversion; Delay effects; Interference; National electric code; Pulse modulation; Sagnac interferometers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Semiconductor waveguides; Space vector pulse width modulation; Switches; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

84-89900-14-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.1998.732765

Filename

732765