All-optical format conversion from nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) to binary phase-shift keying format is experimentally demonstrated at 8 Gb/s using a single semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The conversion is based on the gain and phase modulations of the SOA on an input NRZ signal of finite extinction ratio
Published in:
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
(Volume:18
,
Issue:
22
)
Date of Publication: Nov.15, 2006