Investigation of SOA-Based Wavelength Conversion at 80 Gb/s Using Bandpass Filtering

Laurent Bramerie (1) , Aisling M. Clarke (2) , Gwenaëlle Girault (1) , Sébastien Lobo (1) , Mathilde Gay (1) , Celine Guignard (1) , Vincent Roncin (1) , Brendan Kennedy (2) , Paul J. Maguire (2) , Sylvain Fève (1) , Benoît Clouet (1) , Frédéric Ginovart (1) , Liam P. Barry (2) , Jean-Claude Simon (1) , Prince Anandarajah (2)

1 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
2 RINCE - Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering

A simple and effective 80 Gb/s alloptical wavelength conversion scheme based on XGM in a SOA and blue shifted filtering of the probe spectrum to give a non-inverted output signal is presented.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Laurent Bramerie, Aisling M. Clarke, Gwenaëlle Girault, Sébastien Lobo, Mathilde Gay, et al.. Investigation of SOA-Based Wavelength Conversion at 80 Gb/s Using Bandpass Filtering. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics / Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS 2006) [ http://www.cleoconference.org/about_cleo/2006.aspx ], May 2006, Long Beach (CA), United States. pp.1-2, ⟨10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627878⟩. ⟨hal-00080238⟩