XPM-based wavelength conversion at 80 Gb/s using intersubband transition in InGaAs/AlGaAs/AlAsSb coupled double quantum wells

Author

Akimoto, R. ; Gozu, S. ; Mozume, T. ; Akita, K. ; Cong, G.W. ; Hasama, T. ; Ishikawa, H.

Author_Institution

Network Photonics Res. Center, Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol. (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrated all-optical wavelength conversion at 80 Gb/s using a cross-phase modulation of InGaAs/AlGaAs/AlAsSb coupled double quantum wells waveguide and a subsequent spectral filtering. Error free operation was demonstrated with power penalty of 1.5 dB.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; arsenic compounds; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; optical fibre communication; optical fibre filters; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; phase modulation; semiconductor quantum wells; InGaAs-AlGaAs-AlAsSb; XPM-based wavelength conversion; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; cross-phase modulation; error free operation; intersubband transition; optical fiber communication system; semiconductor coupled double quantum well; subsequent spectral filtering; Absorption; Indium gallium arsenide; Nonlinear optical devices; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Tellurium; (190.5970) Semiconductor nonlinear optics including MQW; (230.7405) Wavelength conversion devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5224289