All-optical format conversion from NRZ to CSRZ and between RZ and CSRZ using SOA-based fiber loop mirror

Author

Li, Wendi ; Chen, Minghua ; Dong, Yi ; Xie, Shizhong

Author_Institution

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

Volume

16

Issue

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

203

Lastpage

205

Abstract

A 10-Gb/s all-optical format conversion from nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) to carrier-suppressed return-to-zero (CSRZ) and conversion between return-to-zero (RZ) and CSRZ are demonstrated, in this letter, using a semiconductor optical amplifier-based fiber loop mirror. The converter utilizes a control light composed of a 5-GHz sinusoidal optical clock signal and a continuous-wave light. The optical power ratio of the control light is optimized to obtain proper phase modulation for high performance format conversion. The power penalty of the proposed format converter is measured for NRZ to CSRZ, RZ to CSRZ, and CSRZ to RZ conversions. In NRZ to CSRZ conversion, the dynamic range of the input NRZ signal power is also investigated.

Keywords

Sagnac interferometers; demultiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical wavelength conversion; self-phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 10 Gbit/s; SOA-based fiber loop mirror; all-optical format conversion; bit-error-rate performance; carrier-suppressed return-to-zero modulation; continuous-wave light; dynamic range; fiber-optic transmission line; nonreturn-to-zero modulation; optical power ratio; phase modulation; pseudorandom bit sequence; sinusoidal optical clock signal; wavelength converter; Clocks; Lighting control; Mirrors; Optical control; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.818942

Filename

1255999