• DocumentCode
    635681
  • Title

    Broadband DPSK regenerative wavelength conversion

  • Author

    Porzi, Claudio ; Contestabile, G. ; Bogoni, Antonella

  • Author_Institution
    TeCIP - Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna, Pisa, Italy
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    11-14 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Broadband operation of regenerative wavelength conversion of NRZ DPSK signals by means of four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier is reported. Significant Q-factor improvement of the converted data is observed at 10 Gb/s in both down- and up-conversion operation over nearly 50 nm conversion range.
  • Keywords
    Q-factor; differential phase shift keying; multiwave mixing; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; NRZ DPSK signals; Q-factor; broadband DPSK regenerative wavelength conversion; broadband operation; down-conversion operation; four-wave mixing; semiconductor optical amplifier; up-conversion operation; Differential phase shift keying; Gain; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical wavelength conversion; Q-factor; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; All-optical regeneration; differential phase shift keying (DPSK); four wave mixing (FWM); semiconductor optical mplifiers (SOAs);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics in Switching (PS), 2012 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Ajaccio
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6608233