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Noninverted wavelength conversion with signal improvement and chirp compression utilizing birefringence in SOAs

  • Yi Dong
  • , Wenshan Cai
  • , Xiaodong Jia
  • , Hui Wang
  • , Liping Lu
  • , Shizhong Xie
  • Tsinghua University

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Abstract

By exploiting signal-induced birefringence in semiconductor optical amplifier, noninverted wavelength conversion for 10 Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero data with enhanced extinction ratio (>13 dB) and negative chirp (∼5 GHz) was obtained. Zero power penalty transmission over 110 km standard single mode fiber without any dispersion compensation after conversion was achieved.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)229-234
Number of pages6
JournalOptics Communications
Volume191
Issue number3-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 May 2001
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Birefringence
  • Semiconductor optical amplifier
  • Wavelength converter

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