Abstract
A pump laser is integrated with a semiconductor optical amplifier to provide a compact, stable wavelength conversion device employing non-degenerate four wave mixing. A 40Gbit/s signal has been successfully wavelength converted for the first time in such a device.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 420-421 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Electronics letters |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1999 |
Keywords
- Bit error rate
- Diffraction gratings
- Distributed feedback lasers
- Four wave mixing
- Gradient index optics
- Heterojunctions
- Integrated optoelectronics
- Optical phase conjugation
- Optically pumped lasers
- Semiconducting indium compounds
- Waveguides
- Wavelength division multiplexing
- Graded refractive index separate confinement heterostructure
- Integrated pump laser
- Nondegenerate four wave mixing
- Semiconductor optical amplifier
- Wavelength conversion
- Semiconductor lasers
- Opticaal frequency conversion
- optical fibre networks
- multiwave mixing
- semiconductor optical amplifiers
- wavelenght division multiplexing