RZ wavelength conversion with reduced power penalty using asemiconductor-optical-amplifier/fiber-grating hybrid device |
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Authors: | Cho PS Mahgerefteh D Goldhar J Burdge GL |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD; |
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Abstract: | We show that a fiber Bragg grating filter improves the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of a semiconductor-optical-amplifier for return-to-zero (RZ) wavelength conversion. A 14-dB reduction in power penalty was obtained at 10.6 Gb/s |
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