Title :
Highly performing wavelength converter based on dual pump wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifier
Author :
Tomkos, Ioannis ; Zacharopoulos, I. ; Roditi, E. ; Syvridis, Dimitris ; Girardin, F. ; Occhi, L. ; Uskov, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf., Athens Univ., Greece
Abstract :
The dual pump four wave mixing (FWM) in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) has been proposed as a promising method to achieve high efficiency and signal to background noise ratio (SBR), specially for large wavelength shifts. In the present work experimental study and theoretical modeling of the mixing processes generating the converted signal will be presented. Moreover, the operation of the dual pump converter in a 10 Gb/s experiment will be demonstrated.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical frequency conversion; optical pumping; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; Gb/s experiment; WDM optical fibre communications; converted signal; dual pump wave mixing; highly performing wavelength converter; large wavelength shifts; mixing processes; semiconductor optical amplifier; signal to background noise ratio; Background noise; Bit error rate; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal generators; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4947-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1998.737738
