All-Optical Format Conversion From NRZ to BPSK Using a Single Saturated SOA

Author

Yan, Cishuo ; Su, Yikai ; Yi, Lilin ; Leng, Lufeng ; Tian, Xiangqing ; Xu, Xinyu ; Tian, Yue

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.

Volume

18

Issue

22

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2368

Lastpage

2370

Abstract

All-optical format conversion from nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) to binary phase-shift keying format is experimentally demonstrated at 8 Gb/s using a single semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The conversion is based on the gain and phase modulations of the SOA on an input NRZ signal of finite extinction ratio

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; phase shift keying; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 8 Gbit/s; all-optical format conversion; amplitude-shift keying; binary phase-shift keying format; finite extinction ratio; gain modulation; nonreturn-to-zero format; phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifier; single saturated optical amplifier; Amplitude shift keying; Binary phase shift keying; Erbium; Extinction ratio; Optical fiber networks; Optical signal processing; Phase modulation; Phase shift keying; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal analysis; Amplitude-shift keying (ASK); format conversion; phase-shift keying (PSK); semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.885633

Filename

1717544