All-Optical Signal Processing Using Gain Clamped Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

Author

Silveira, Tiago ; Teixeira, Antonio ; Ferreira, Ana ; Beleffi, Giorgio Tosi ; Forin, Davide ; Stevan, Sergio, Jr. ; Monteiro, Pedro

Author_Institution

Nokia Siemens Network S. A., Amadora

Volume

3

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

307

Lastpage

310

Abstract

All optical signal processing is a key functionality to ensure the operation and growth of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks. In this work we present a review of nonlinear applications of gain clamped semiconductor optical amplifiers (GC-SOA). An overview on recent results of wavelength conversion, signal reshaping, format conversion, and regeneration capabilities is presented; these results demonstrate promising characteristics of GC-SOA based schemes to enable transparent optical networks.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical information processing; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM networks; all-optical signal processing; format conversion; gain clamped semiconductor optical amplifiers; regeneration capabilities; signal reshaping; transparent optical networks; wavelength conversion; wavelength division multiplexing networks; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing; all-optical signal processing; gain clamped semiconductor optical amplifier (GC-SOA); non-linear devices; regeneration; wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296305

Filename

4296305