Pattern Effect Removal Technique for Semiconductor-Optical-Amplifier-Based Wavelength Conversion

Author

Wang, Jin ; Marculescu, Andrej ; Li, Jingshi ; Vorreau, Philipp ; Tzadok, Shai ; Ben Ezra, S. ; Tsadka, Sagie ; Freude, Wolfgang ; Leuthold, Juerg

Author_Institution

Karlsruhe Univ., Karlsruhe

Volume

19

Issue

24

fYear

2007

Firstpage

1955

Lastpage

1957

Abstract

A technique to overcome pattern dependence in semiconductor-optical-amplifier-based wavelength converters is presented. The technique is based on a careful selection of red- and blue-shifted spectral components having complementary pattern effects in the output spectrum of a wavelength-converted signal. Significant signal quality improvements are reported at a bit rate of 40 Gb/s.

Keywords

optical wavelength conversion; red shift; semiconductor optical amplifiers; blue-shifted spectral components; pattern effect removal; red-shifted spectral components; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength conversion; wavelength converters; Bit rate; Chirp; Frequency; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; All-optical; nonlinear optics; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.908766

Filename

4390082