40 Gb/s wavelength conversion via four-wave mixing in a quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3788-3798

  Meuer, Christian ^a   Schmidt Langhorst, Carsten ^b   Schmeckebier, Holger ^a   Fiol, Gerrit ^a   Arsenijević, Dejan ^a   Schubert, Colja ^b   Bimberg, Dieter ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PUMPS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELENGTH;

40 GB/S; CRUCIAL PARAMETERS; DEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING; DETUNINGS; DOWN CONVERSION; ERROR FLOOR; ERROR-FREE WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; GAIN PEAKS; GAIN SPECTRA; OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; PUMP CONFIGURATION; PUMP WAVELENGTH; QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; SMALL-SIGNAL BANDWIDTH; SPECTRAL CONVERSION; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; UP CONVERSION; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 79951650652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.003788     Document Type: Article

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