All-optical format conversion for polarization and wavelength division multiplexed system

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 1606-1609

  Wu, Wenhan ^a   Yu, Yu ^a   Hu, Shoujin ^a   Zou, Bingrong ^a   Zhang, Xinliang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Delay interferometer (DI); format conversion; polarization division multiplexed (PDM); wavelength division multiplexed (WDM)

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL FORMAT CONVERSION; AVERAGE POWER; CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; DELAY INTERFEROMETER; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; FILTERING PROPERTIES; FORMAT CONVERSION; MODULATION FORMATS; NON-RETURN-TO-ZERO FORMATS; ON-OFF KEYING; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; RETURN-TO-ZERO; SPACE-BASED; TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXED;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; POLARIZATION; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84865788596     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2210543     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. W. Astar, et al., "All-optical format conversion of NRZ-OOK to RZOOK in a silicon nanowire utilizing either XPM or FWM and resulting in a receiver sensitivity gain of 2.5 dB," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 234-249, Feb. 2010.
2. C. Kwok and C. Lin, "Polarization-insensitive all-optical NRZ-to-RZ format conversion by spectral filtering of a cross phase modulation broadened signal spectrum," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 451-458, May/Jun. 2006. (Pubitemid 43876314)
3. Y. Yu, X. Zhang, and D. Huang, "All-optical format conversion from CS-RZ to NRZ at 40 Gbit/s," Opt. Express, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 5693- 5698, Apr. 2007. (Pubitemid 46698979)
4. X. Zhao, C. Lou, H. Zhou, D. Lu, and L. Huo, "Optical regenerative NRZ to RZ format conversion based on cascaded lithium niobate modulators," Opt. Express, vol. 18, no. 23, pp. 23657-23663, 2010.
5. C. G. Lee, Y. J. Kim, C. S. Park, H. J. Lee, and C.-S. Park, "Experimental demonstration of 10-Gb/s data format conversions between NRZ and RZ using SOA-loop-mirror," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 834-841, Feb. 2005. (Pubitemid 40414847)
6. B. Zou, Y. Yu, W. Wu, and X. Zhang, "Parallel eight channels all-optical NRZ-to-RZ format conversions at 40 Gb/s using a single SOA," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 24, no. 13, pp. 1091-1093, Jul. 1, 2012.
7. P. Groumas, V. Katopodis, C. Kouloumentas, M. Bougioukos, and H. Avramopoulos, "All-optical RZ-to-NRZ conversion of advanced modulated signals," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 179-181, Feb. 1, 2012.
8. G. W. Lu, K. S. Abedin, and T. Miyazaki, "All-optical RZ-DPSK WDM to RZ-DQPSK phase multiplexing using four-wave mixing in highly nonlinear fiber," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 19, no. 21, pp. 1669- 1701, Nov. 1, 2007.
9. Y. Yu, B. Zou, W. Wu, and X. Zhang, "All-optical parallel NRZ-DPSK to RZ-DPSK format conversion at 40 Gb/s based on XPM effect in a single SOA," Opt. Express, vol. 19, no. 15, pp. 14720-14725, Jul. 2011.
10. Y. Yu, X. Zhang, J. B. Rosas-Fernández, D. Huang, R. V. Penty, and I. H. White, "Single SOA based 16 DWDM channels all-optical NRZ-to- RZ format conversions with different duty cycles," Opt. Express, vol. 16, no. 20, pp. 16166-16171, Sep. 2008.
11. J. Lasri, P. Devgan, V. S. Grigoryan, and P. Kumar, "Multi- wavelength NRZ-to-RZ conversion with timing-jitter suppression," in Proc. CLEO 2004, pp. 1-3, paper CFG2.
12. Y. Yu, X. Zhang, and D. Huang, "Simultaneous all-optical multi-channel RZ and CSRZ to NRZ format conversion," Opt. Commun., vol. 284, no. 1, pp. 129-135, Jan. 2011.
13. Y. Ding, et al., "Multi-channel WDM RZ-to-NRZ format conversion at 50 Gbit/s based on single silicon microring resonator," Opt. Express, vol. 18, no. 20, pp. 21121-21130, Sep. 2010.
14. Z. Zhang, Y. Yu, and X. Zhang, "Simultaneous all-optical demodulation and format conversion formulti-channel (CS) RZ-DPSK signals," Opt. Express, vol. 19, no. 13, pp. 12427-12433, Jun. 2011.
15. M. I. Hayee, M. C. Cardakli, A. B. Sahin, and A. E. Willner, "Doubling of bandwidth utilization using two orthogonal polarizations and power unbalancing in a polarization-division-multiplexing scheme," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 881-883, Aug. 2001. (Pubitemid 32720189)
16. G. Charlet, et al., "Upgrade of 10 Gbit/s ultralong-haul system to 40 Gbit/s with APol RZ-DPSK modulation format," Electron. Lett., vol. 41, no. 22, pp. 1240-1241, Oct. 2005.
17. A. Yi, L. Yan, B. Luo, W. Pan, J. Ye, and Z. Chen, "RZ to NRZ format conversion for two tributaries of a PDM signal simultaneously utilizing a single section of HNLF," in Opt. Fiber Commun. Conf. Tech. Dig. 2012, pp. 1-3, paper JW2A.89.
18. J. Sakaguchi, et al., "19-core fiber transmission of 19×100×172-Gb/s SDM-WDM-PDM-QPSK signals at 305 Tb/s," in Opt. Fiber Commun. Conf. Tech. Dig. 2012, pp. 1-3, paper PDP5C.1.