Analytical Solution for SOA-Based All-Optical Wavelength Conversion Using Transient Cross-Phase Modulation

Author

Dong, Jianji ; Fu, Songnian ; Zhang, Xinliang ; Shum, P. ; Zhang, Liren ; Huang, Dexiu

Author_Institution

Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

Volume

18

Issue

24

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2554

Lastpage

2556

Abstract

All-optical wavelength conversion (WC) based on transient cross-phase modulation (T-XPM) of semiconductor optical amplifier (SOAs) is a promising approach to accelerate the gain recovery of SOAs. An analytical solution is deduced to explain the polarity variation of WC based on T-XPM of SOAs from the viewpoint of the impulse response functions. We conclude that both inverted and noninverted WCs can be realized when the central wavelength of the optical bandpass filter is either blue-shifted or red-shifted with respect to the wavelength of the probe signal. We are able to validate the formula against our experimental results recently published

Keywords

band-pass filters; optical filters; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; phase modulation; red shift; semiconductor optical amplifiers; all-optical wavelength conversion; blue-shift; cross-phase modulation; gain recovery; impulse response functions; optical bandpass filter; polarity variation; red-shift; semiconductor optical amplifier; transient modulation; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Probes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Transient analysis; Ultrafast optics; Cross-phase modulation (XPM); optical bandpass filter (OBF); semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); ultrafast wavelength conversion (WC);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.886864

Filename

4016119