Performance of All-Optical Format Conversion Using a Self-Generating Optical Clock

Author

Matsuura, Motoharu ; Oka, Naoto

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng. & Inf., Univ. of Electro-Commun., Chofu, Japan

Volume

26

Issue

22

fYear

2014

fDate

Nov.15, 15 2014

Firstpage

2217

Lastpage

2220

Abstract

In this letter, we have experimentally evaluated the performance of all-optical format conversion using a self-generating optical clock. To show the feasibility of this method, we have demonstrated the all-optical format conversion from return-to-zero ON-OFF keying to return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying using the self-generating optical clock at a bit-rate of 10 Gb/s, and successfully achieved high-conversion performances in terms of bit-error-rate measurement.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; differential phase shift keying; error statistics; optical communication; optical information processing; all-optical format conversion; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit-error-rate measurement; return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying; return-to-zero on-off keying; self-generating optical clock; Clocks; Modulation; Optical pulses; Optical saturation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Synchronization; Optical signal processing (OSP); clock recovery; cross-gain modulation (XGM); format conversion; gain saturation; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2014.2350025

Filename

6881661