Investigation of SOA-based wavelength conversion at 80 Gb/s using bandpass filtering
Bramerie, Laurent, Clarke, Aisling M., Girault, Gwenaelle, Lobo, S., Gay, M., Guignard, Celine, Roncin, V., Kennedy, Brendan F., Maguire, Paul J., Feve, S., Clouet, B., Ginovart, F., Barry, Liam P.ORCID: 0000-0001-8366-4790 and Simon, Jean Claude
(2006)
Investigation of SOA-based wavelength conversion at 80 Gb/s using bandpass filtering.
In: CLEO/QELS 2006 - Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 21-26 May 2006, Long Beach, CA, USA.
This paper presents a simple and effective 80 Gb/s wavelength conversion scheme by using Cross Gain Modulation in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA) in conjunction with filtering the blue shifted component of the probe spectrum to give a non-inverted output signal.