All-optical 1.5 μm to 1.3 μm wavelength conversion in a walk-off compensating nonlinear optical loop mirror

Author

Mahgerefteh, D. ; Chbat, M.W.

Author_Institution

Lab. for Phys. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

7

Issue

5

fYear

1995

fDate

5/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

497

Lastpage

499

Abstract

We demonstrate highly efficient all-optical conversion from 1.5 μm to 1.3 μm using a novel nonlinear optical loop mirror that compensates for walk-off. We make the fiber loop by splicing alternating segments of standard single-mode and dispersion-shifted fibers and choose their lengths such that the walk-off of the 1.3 μm and 1.5 μm pulses in one segment is completely reversed in the adjacent segment. We also show that the width of the converted pulses can be tailored by this scheme.

Keywords

compensation; infrared sources; mirrors; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical frequency conversion; optical resonators; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.3 mum; 1.5 mum; all-optical wavelength conversion; converted pulses; dispersion-shifted fibers; fiber loop; nonlinear optical loop mirror; single-mo; walk-off compensating nonlinear optical loop mirror; Fiber nonlinear optics; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Splicing; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.384522

Filename

384522