• DocumentCode
    3626012
  • Title

    Experimental Study of the Impact of Input Signal Suppression on the Performance of a Cascaded SOA-MZI Wavelength Converter

  • Author

    Joseph A. Summers;Milan L. Macanovic;Vikrant Lal;Daniel J. Blumenthal

  • Author_Institution
    ECE Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560 USA
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    161
  • Lastpage
    162
  • Abstract
    We study the impact of input signal suppression on the performance of a two-stage cascaded SOA-based wavelength converter. Error-free operation at 2.5 Gbps is shown for suppression as small as 6.5 dB.
  • Keywords
    "Source separation","Probes","Error-free operation","Photonic integrated circuits","Tunable circuits and devices","Quantum cascade lasers","Laser stability","Wavelength conversion","Degradation","Optical signal processing"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics in Switching, 2007
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-1121-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PS.2007.4300794
  • Filename
    4300794