Bit-error-rate performance dependence on pump and signal power of the wavelength converter based on FWM in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Dong, Yi ; Lu, Liping ; Wang, Hui ; Cai, Wenshan ; Xie, Shizhong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1557

Abstract

We demonstrate the effect of input pump and signal power on the converted optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR), intersymbol interference (ISI) and bit-error-rate (BER) performance of the wavelength converter based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA). The results of BER measurement show that there exists a trade-off between maximizing signal-to-background ratio (SBR) and minimizing ISI at higher signal powers. A minimum power penalty of less than 1 dB is achieved by optimizing the input pump and signal power

Keywords

error statistics; intersymbol interference; laser noise; multiwave mixing; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; BER; FWM; ISI; OSNR; SOA; bit-error-rate performance; four-wave mixing; input pump; intersymbol interference; optical signal-to-noise ratio; optimization; semiconductor optical amplifiers; signal power; signal-to-background ratio; wavelength converter; Bit error rate; Intersymbol interference; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio; Stimulated emission; Wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Technology Proceedings, 2000. WCC - ICCT 2000. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6394-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCT.2000.890958

Filename

890958