Widely tunable wavelength converter using a double-ring fiber laser incorporating a semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Chow, K.K. ; Shu, C. ; Mak, M.W.K. ; Tsang, H.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

85

Abstract

Summary form only given. A widely tunable all-optical wavelength converter that operates without any external pump laser was demonstrated. The scheme was based on a double-ring fiber laser incorporating a semiconductor optical amplifier. Using broad-band orthogonal pumps four-wave mixing, a uniform (3-dB variation) conversion efficiency over a 40-nm conversion range is obtained

Keywords

fibre lasers; multiwave mixing; optical tuning; optical wavelength conversion; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; broad-band orthogonal pumps four-wave mixing; double-ring fiber laser; optical networks; semiconductor optical amplifier; tuning range; uniform conversion efficiency; widely tunable wavelength converter; Fiber lasers; Laser tuning; Optical fiber polarization; Optical wavelength conversion; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.969185

Filename

969185