Compensation of gain saturation in SOA-gates by interferometric Mach-Zehnder wavelength converters

Author

Danielsen, S.L. ; Joergensen, C. ; Hansen, P.B. ; Mikkelsen, B. ; Stubkjaer, K.E. ; Schilling, M. ; Daub, K. ; Dutting, K. ; Klenk, M. ; Idler, W. ; Doussiere, P. ; Pommerau, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electromagn. Syst., Tech. Univ., Lyngby, Denmark

Volume

4

fYear

1996

fDate

19-19 Sept. 1996

Firstpage

45

Abstract

Compensation of signal degradation in semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) gates for optical switch nodes using all-active integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometric wavelength converters is experimentally demonstrated at 2.5 and 10 Gb/s. More than 10 dB improvement of the dynamic range is obtained compared to a stand-alone SOA-gate.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; compensation; electro-optical switches; integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical frequency conversion; optical saturation; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 to 10 Gbit/s; SOA-gates; WDM; all-active integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometric wavelength converters; dynamic range; gain saturation; interferometric Mach-Zehnder wavelength converters; optical frequency conversion; optical switch nodes; signal degradation; stand-alone SOA-gate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on

Conference_Location

Oslo, Norway

Print_ISBN

82-423-0418-1

Type

conf

Filename

715463