Author :
Kang, I. ; Dorrer, C. ; Zhang, L. ; Rasras, M. ; Buhl, L. ; Bhardwaj, Arpit ; Cabot, S. ; Dinu, M. ; Liu, X. ; Cappuzzo, M. ; Gomez, L. ; Wong-Foy, A. ; Chen, Y.F. ; Patel, S. ; Neilson, D.T. ; Jacques, J. ; Giles, C.R.
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
A novel method of all-optical wavelength conversion of DPSK signal is presented. We demonstrate wavelength conversion of 40-Gb/s DPSK signals with a large dynamic range of input OSNR, and significant reduction of phase fluctuations.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; fluctuations; light interferometry; optical fibre communication; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 40 Gbit/s; DPSK signals; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; OSNR; all optical wavelength conversion; large dynamic range; phase fluctuation reduction; semiconductor optical amplifier;
