Widely tunable polarization-independent all-optical wavelength converter using a semiconductor optical amplifier

被引:23
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作者
Mak, MWK [1 ]
Tsang, HK
Chan, K
机构
[1] Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Dept Elect Engn, Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[2] Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Dept Informat Engn, Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
关键词
optical communication; optical frequency conversion; optical polarization; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA's); wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);
D O I
10.1109/68.841274
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We report a polarization-independent widely tunable four-wave mixing wavelength converter using polarization diversity and broad-band orthogonal pumps in a single semiconductor optical amplifier. The conversion -efficiency is nearly constant (less than 3-dB variation) over a 36-nm range with less than 0.34 dB polarization sensitivity. The power penalty at 10(-9) bit error rate for a 10-Gb/s signal is less than 0.9 dB.
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页码:525 / 527
页数:3
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