Low-input power wavelength conversion at 10 Gb/s using an integrated amplifier/DFB laser and subsequent transmission over 375 km of fiber

M.F.C. Stephens; R.V. Penty; I.H. White; M.J. Fice; J.E.A. Whiteaway; R.A. Saunders

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Low-input power wavelength conversion at 10 Gb/s using an integrated amplifier/DFB laser and subsequent transmission over 375 km of fiber

M.F.C. Stephens, R.V. Penty, I.H. White, M.J. Fice, J.E.A. Whiteaway, R.A. Saunders

Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

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Abstract

All-optical wavelength conversion of a 10-Gb/s pseudorandom bit sequence (PRBS) signal is demonstrated for the first time in an in-line integrated semiconductor optical amplifier/distributed feedback (SOA/DFB) laser requiring an input power of only 0.7 mW for ∼10-dB extinction ratio. The wavelength converted signal is then transmitted over 375 km of nonzero dispersion shifted fiber resulting in a small negative conversion penalty (-0.2 ± 0.1 dB) compared to the back-to-back signal.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	878-880
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	10
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/68.681516
Publication status	Published - Jun 1998

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Cited By (since 1996):13

Export Date: 20 March 2014

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CODEN: IPTLE

Language of Original Document: English

Correspondence Address: IEEE

References: Fujiwara, M., Goodman, M.S., O'Mahony, M.J., Tonguz, O.K., Willner, A.E., Multiwavelength optical-technology and networks (1996) J. Lightwave Technol., 14, pp. 932-935. , June; Joergensen, C., Danielsen, S.L., Vaa, M., Mikkelsen, B., Stubkjaer, K.E., Doussiere, P., Pommerau, F., Goix, M., 40 Gbit/s all-optical wavelength conversion by semiconductor optical amplifiers (1996) Electron. Lett., 32 (4), pp. 367-368; Joergensen, C., Danielsen, S.L., Hansen, P.B., Stubkjaer, K.E., Schilling, M., Daub, K., Lach, E., Wunstel, K., All-optical 40 Gb/s compact integrated interferometric wavelength converter (1997) Proc. Optical Fiber Communications Conf. (OFC'97), pp. 72-73. , Dallas, TX, paper Tu01; Geraghty, F., Lee, R.B., Vahala, K.J., Verdiell, M., Ziari, M., Mathur, A., Wavelength conversion up to 18 nm at 10 Gb/s by four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier (1997) IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 9, pp. 452-454. , Apr; Yasaka, H., Saqnjoh, H., Ishii, H., Yoshikuni, Y., Oe, K., Finely tunable 10 Gb/s signal wavelength conversion from 1530 to 1560 nm region using a super structure grating distributed bragg reflector laser (1996) IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 8, pp. 764-766. , June; Watanabe, S., Kuwatsuka, H., Takeda, S., Ishikawa, H., Polarization-insensitive wavelength conversion and phase conjugation using bidirectional forward four-wave mixing in a lasing DFB-LD (1997) Electron. Lett., 33 (4), pp. 316-317; Spiekman, L.H., Koren, U., Chien, M.D., Miller, B.I., Wiesenfeld, J.M., Perino, J.S., All-optical Mach-Zehnder wavelength converter with monolithically integrated DFB probe source (1997) IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 9, pp. 1349-1351. , Oct; Durhuus, T., Mikkelson, B., Joergensen, C., Danielsen, S.L., Stubkjaer, K.E., All-optical wavelength conversion by semiconductor optical amplifiers (1996) J. Lightwave Technol., 14 (6), pp. 942-954; Sanjoh, H., Mawatari, H., Ishii, H., Yasaka, H., Yoshikuni, Y., Oe, K., Wavelength chirping in wavelength conversion of 10 Gb/s signal with semiconductor laser converter (1996) IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 8, pp. 296-298. , Feb; Saunders, R.A., King, J.P., Hardcastle, I., Wide-band chirp measurement technique for high bit-rate sources (1994) Electron. Lett., 30 (16), pp. 1336-1338

Keywords

Distributed-feedback laser
Optical communications
Semiconductor optical amplifier
Wavelength conversion
Wavelength-division multiplexing

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