Authors: Singh, Surinder¹; Kaler, R. S.²

Source: Fiber And Integrated Optics, Volume 26, Number 5, September 2007 , pp. 295-308(14)

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd

Abstract:

We investigate 20 Gb/s wavelength conversion for return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying (RZ-DPSK) signal using four-wave mixing (FWM) in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). We show that the 10-Gb/s RZ-DPSK signal-to-pump ratio increases up to -0.286 dB with Q factor improvement of 1.663 dB for increasing the cascadeability of optical networks. The effect of variation in bandwidth for an ideal dual-arm Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is illustrated. For different bit rates, the converted power signal is investigated with increase in signal input power. We show that the quality of converted signal is best before the saturation of SOA. The dependence of four-wave mixing (FWM) efficiency and converted signal power with signal input power is also studied, and it is found that FWM efficiency decreases with increase in signal input power. The impact of signal-to-pump power ratio, unsaturated amplifier gain, and pump power is further optimized with minimum Q factor penalty for 10-Gb/s and 20-Gb/s bit rate. We show that converted signal power increases up to power saturation level and then starts decreasing. We also show that with higher bit rate, we have a wide range of choices for pump power signal. We further investigate the quality of converted signal at 10 Gb/s, which shows an improvement over signal input power. Finally, the increase in transmission distance after wavelength conversion is investigated.

Keywords: BER; FWM; MZI; RZ-DPSK; SOA; unsaturated amplifier gain

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01468030701477259

Affiliations: 1: Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sangrur, Punjab, India 2: Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India

Publication date: 2007-09-01

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