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Summary form only given. Four-wave mixing (FWM) in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) is currently the only available strictly transparent wavelength-conversion technique, which is not penalized by phase matching. The span of the conversion is limited primarily by conversion efficiency and signal-to-noise (SNR) issues, both of which are expected to improve with the use of longer SOAs. In this paper, we demonstrate significantly enhanced performance of long converters in a system experiment at 10 Gbit/s. The experiment shows for the first time, to our knowledge, that FWM wavelength down-conversions can span the full gain bandwidth of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers.
Published in:
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 1998. OFC '98., Technical Digest
Date of Conference: 22-27 Feb. 1998
- Page(s):
- 108 - 109
- Meeting Date :
- 22 Feb 1998-27 Feb 1998
- Print ISBN:
- 1-55752-521-8
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 5998533
- Conference Location :
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/OFC.1998.657250
- Product Type:
- Conference Publications
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