论文信息 - Cascadability Performance Evaluation of a New NRZ SOA-MZI Wavelength Converter

Cascadability Performance Evaluation of a New NRZ SOA-MZI Wavelength Converter

We evaluate the cascadability performance of a new semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) Mach-Zehnder interferometer-based nonreturn-to-zero wavelength converter in a loop experiment. We use the bidirectional data injection control scheme with an additional continuous-wave signal to optimize the gains and phases imparted by the SOAs. The scheme has been shown to be capable of eight cascaded, error-free wavelength conversions at 10 Gb/s.

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