Wavelength conversion using a noninterferometric semiconductor-optical-amplifier/fiber-Bragg-grating device

Author

Cho, P.S. ; Mahgerefteh, D. ; Goldhar, J. ; Burdge, G.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

477

Abstract

Summary form only given. Semiconductor-optical-amplifier (SOA)-based all-optical wavelength converters utilizing cross gain modulation (XGM) in a single amplier or cross-phase modulation (XPM) in one or two amplifiers placed in an interferometer are becoming practical because of their compactness, integrability, and low latency. The XPM technique exhibits higher performance with the complex interferometer structure. We report an SOA/fiber-grating wavelength converter for return-to-zero (RZ) data that uses XPM in a single amplifier and requires no interferometers.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; electro-optical modulation; optical communication equipment; optical frequency conversion; optical pumping; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; all-optical wavelength converters; compactness; complex interferometer structure; cross gain modulation; cross-phase modulation; fiber-Bragg-grating device; fiber-grating wavelength converter; integrability; low latency; noninterferometric semiconductor-optical-amplifier; return-to-zero data; semiconductor-optical-amplifier based all-optical wavelength converters; single amplifier; wavelength conversion; Band pass filters; Extinction ratio; Fiber gratings; Laser feedback; Optical devices; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical wavelength conversion; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676518

Filename

676518