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.


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    Title :

    30-nm wavelength conversion at 10 Gbit/s by four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier


    Contributors:
    Hunziker, G. (author) / Paiella, R. (author) / Spano, P. (author) / Guekos, G. (author) / Vahala, K.J. (author)


    Publication date :

    1998-01-01


    Size :

    235826 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English