Widely tunable polarization-independent all-optical wavelengthconverter using a semiconductor optical amplifier |
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Authors: | Mak MWK Tsang HK Chan K |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin; |
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Abstract: | We report a polarization-independent widely tunable four-wave mixing wavelength converter using polarization diversity and broad-band orthogonal pumps in a single semiconductor optical amplifier. The conversion efficiency is nearly constant (less than 3-dB variation) over a 36-nm range with less than 0.34 dB polarization sensitivity. The power penalty at 10-9 bit error rate for a 10-Gb/s signal is less than 0.9 dB |
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