Single and multicast wavelength conversion at 40 Gb/s by means of fast nonlinear polarization switching in an SOA

G. Contestabile; N. Calabretta; M. Presi; E. Ciaramella

doi:10.1109/LPT.2005.859146

Single and multicast wavelength conversion at 40 Gb/s by means of fast nonlinear polarization switching in an SOA

G. Contestabile, N. Calabretta, M. Presi, E. Ciaramella

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate all-optical wavelength conversion of a 40-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero signal by means of nonlinear polarization switching in a single semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). Using a highly nonlinear SOA optimized for very fast gain recovery time, we observe no appreciable penalty for the conventional (single) wavelength conversion. We also obtain, for the first time by using this technique, the simultaneous multiconversion to different wavelengths (four on a 200-GHz frequency grid) of an input signal.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2652-2654
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	17
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2005.859146
Publication status	Published - Dec 2005
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

All-optical wavelength conversion
Multicasting
Nonlinear polarization switching (NPS)
Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)
Wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM)

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