Characterization of a turbo-switch SOA wavelength converter using spectrographic pulse measurement
Reid, Douglas A., Clarke, Aisling M., Yang, Xuelin, Maher, Robert D., Webb, R.P., Manning, R.J. and Barry, Liam P.ORCID: 0000-0001-8366-4790
(2008)
Characterization of a turbo-switch SOA wavelength converter using spectrographic pulse measurement.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 14
(3).
pp. 841-848.
ISSN 1077-260X
We use the frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) technique to determine the pulsewidth and chirp characteristics of wavelength-converted pulses from a turbo-switch and asymmetrical Mach-Zehnder filter combination under a variety of operating conditions. The output pulses were found to be near transform limited and had a high tolerance to line rate and input power variations.