Demonstration of birefringence in a bulk semiconductor optical amplifier and its application to all-optical wavelength conversion

L. Q. Guo; M. J. Connelly

Demonstration of birefringence in a bulk semiconductor optical amplifier and its application to all-optical wavelength conversion

L. Q. Guo, M. J. Connelly

Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering

University of Limerick

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Abstract

Birefringence effects in an InGaAsP/InP tensile-strained bulk semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) are demonstrated. All-optical wavelength conversions based on birefringence induced polarization rotation in SOAs are investigated. It is shown that a bit error rate of <10^-9 can be achieved and an extinction of >9dB can be obtained at a bit rate of 2.488Gbit/s with a 2 ³¹-1 non-return-to-zero (NRZ) pseudorandom bit sequence (PRBS).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	167-170
Number of pages	4
Journal	NIST Special Publication
Publication status	Published - 2004
Event	Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements, 2004 - Boulder, CO, United States Duration: 28 Sep 2004 → 30 Sep 2004

Keywords

Birefringence
Cross polarization modulation
Polarization rotation
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
Wavelength conversion

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Demonstration of birefringence in a bulk semiconductor optical amplifier and its application to all-optical wavelength conversion

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