Abstract
For the first time, all-optical wavelength conversion of a 2.488-Gb/s signal with simultaneous suppression and replacement of a low-frequency wavelength-identifying pilot tone has been demonstrated using an integrated semiconductor optical amplifier/distributed feedback laser. In addition, the conversion process has been shown to allow eye noise removal, leading to negative bit-error-ratio penalties as high as -1.6 dB.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 472-474 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | IEEE Photonics Technology Letters |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 1999 |
Funding
Manuscript received October 14, 1998; revised December 17, 1998. This work was supported by the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under the WASPNET Project. The work of J. D. Bainbridge was supported by Nortel. The authors are with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TR, U.K. Publisher Item Identifier S 1041-1135(99)02500-8. The authors would like to thank Dr. M. Fice of Nortel Technology for supplying the device chip, developed under contract from the European Space Agency.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering