All-optical signal up-conversion for radio-on-fiber applications using cross-gain modulation in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Seo, Y.-K. ; Choi, C.S. ; Choi, W.-Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

14

Issue

10

fYear

2002

Firstpage

1448

Lastpage

1450

Abstract

The authors present a novel scheme of up-converting optical intermediate frequency (IF) signals with an optical local oscillator (LO) signal using cross-gain modulation in a semiconductor optical amplifier. This scheme provides high conversion efficiency and is independent of the incident light wavelength and polarization. It can be useful for radio-on-fiber transmission system applications in which one remote LO signal is provided for several wavelength-division-multiplexing IF signals.

Keywords

microwave links; microwave photonics; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; all-optical signal up-conversion; cross-gain modulation; high conversion efficiency; incident light wavelength; one remote local oscillator signal; optical intermediate frequency signals; optical local oscillator signal; polarization; radio-on-fiber transmission system applications; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength-division-multiplexing IF signals; Base stations; Frequency; High speed optical techniques; Millimeter wave technology; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.801823

Filename

1037546