Widely tunable wavelength converter using a double-ring fiber laser with a semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Chow, K.K. ; Shu, C. ; Mak, M.W.K. ; Tsang, H.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China

Volume

14

Issue

10

fYear

2002

Firstpage

1445

Lastpage

1447

Abstract

Widely tunable wavelength conversion has been demonstrated using broad-band orthogonal-pump four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier placed at the intersection of two fiber ring lasers. The all-optical wavelength converter operates without using any external pump source. A 3-dB conversion-range over 40 nm is obtained. The measured power penalty is 1.5 dB for a 2.5-Gb/s converted signal at 10/sup -9/ bit error rate.

Keywords

error statistics; fibre lasers; laser tuning; multiwave mixing; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 2.5 Gbit/s; all-optical wavelength converter; bit error rate; broad-band orthogonal-pump four-wave mixing; conversion-range; double-ring fiber laser; power penalty; semiconductor optical amplifier; two fiber ring lasers; wavelength-routed optical network; widely tunable wavelength converter; Fiber lasers; Four-wave mixing; Optical wavelength conversion; Power measurement; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.802371

Filename

1037545