Design and performance of an all-optical wavelength converter based on a semiconductor optical amplifier and delay interferometer

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3730-3738

  Kim, Na Young ^a   Tang, Xuefeng ^a   Cartledge, John C ^a   Atieh, Ahmad K ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BTI Photonic Systems Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross phase modulation; Optical communication; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

10 GB/ S; ALL-OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION NOISE; CROSS-PHASE MODULATION; DELAY INTERFEROMETERS; INPUT SIGNALS; OPERATING CONDITIONS; PROPER DESIGNS; PULSE WIDTHS; RETURN TO ZEROS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

CODE CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PHOTONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 46349103857     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.909367     Document Type: Article

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