Tunable all-optical wavelength conversion of 160-Gb/s RZ optical signals by cascaded SFG-DFG generation in PPLN waveguide

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 384-386

  Furukawa, Hideaki ^a   Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai ^b   Wada, Naoya ^a   Shinada, Satoshi ^a   Tsuboya, Hiroshi ^c   Miyazaki, Tetsuya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c OPTOQUEST CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

160 Gb s return to zero (RZ) optical signal; Cascaded sum and difference frequency generation (cSFG DFG); Periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN); Quasi phase matching (QPM); Spectral reshaping; Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHASE MATCHING; TUNING;

CASCADED SUM- AND DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE; QUASI-PHASE MATCHING; SPECTRAL-RESHAPING;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 33947585993     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.891951     Document Type: Article

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