Cascaded wavelength conversion based on cross-gain modulation and cross-phase modulation in SOAs

Zhaoxi Wu; Yuanqing Huang; Zihua Weng; Huangping Yan; Yiju Wang; Jin Wan; Ruifang Ye

doi:10.1117/12.743518

19 November 2007 Cascaded wavelength conversion based on cross-gain modulation and cross-phase modulation in SOAs

Zhaoxi Wu, Yuanqing Huang, Zihua Weng, Huangping Yan, Yiju Wang, Jin Wan, Ruifang Ye

Proceedings Volume 6783, Optical Transmission, Switching, and Subsystems V; 67833D (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.743518
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2007, Wuhan, China

Abstract

All-optical wavelength converters (AOWCs) that utilize nonlinearities in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) have attracted considerable research interest. AOWCs based on cross gain modulation (XGM) have a large dynamic range of the input optical signal power but a low extinction ratio (ER) and a high chirp, whereas AOWCs based on cross phase modulation (XPM) provide a low chirp and a high ER but suffer from a relative small input power dynamic range. We point out that there seems to be some complementarity between XGM and XPM. Based on this, we propose a novel scheme for cascaded wavelength conversion based on cross gain modulation and cross phase modulation in SOAs thus is expected to have a high ER and a large input power dynamic range simultaneously. The wavelength conversion operation includes two stages, that is, XGM in the first stage followed by the stage of XPM. In the XGM stage, we use a band pass filter to increase the frequency response of the SOA. In the XPM, we use the bidirectional input scheme for MZI to improve the response of XPM and cancel XGM-induced intensity unbalance to get a relative perfect interference.

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Zhaoxi Wu, Yuanqing Huang, Zihua Weng, Huangping Yan, Yiju Wang, Jin Wan, and Ruifang Ye "Cascaded wavelength conversion based on cross-gain modulation and cross-phase modulation in SOAs", Proc. SPIE 6783, Optical Transmission, Switching, and Subsystems V, 67833D (19 November 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.743518

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