Automatically-controlled C-band wavelength conversion with constant output power based on four-wave mixing in SOA's

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E88-C, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2358-2364

  Otsubo, Koji ^a,c,d   Akiyama, Tomoyuki ^a,d,e,f   Kuwatsuka, Haruhiko ^a,c,d,e,f   Hatori, Nobuaki ^b,d,e   Ebe, Hiroji ^b,d   Sugawara, Mitsuru ^b,d  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Femtosecond Technology Project   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^e IEEE

^f Electro Optics Society

Author keywords

C band; Four wave mixing; Quantum dot SOA; Quantum well SOA; Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDPASS FILTERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; FOUR WAVE MIXING; OPTICAL PUMPING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SWITCHING;

C-BAND; QUANTUM-DOT SOA; QUANTUM-WELL SOA; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 29144521487     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e88-c.12.2358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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