Citation:
Juerg Leuthold, Marom, Dan M. , Cabot, Steven , Jaques, James J. , Ryf, Roland , and Giles, C. Randy . 2004. “All-Optical Wavelength Conversion Using Apulse Reformatting Optical Filter”. Journal Of Lightwave Technology, 22, 1, Pp. 186-192. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=1266693.
Abstract:
We introduce a general concept for the design of all-optical wavelength converters with pulse reformatting functionality. The novel wavelength converters are based on a single semiconductor optical amplifier followed by an optical filter. A microelectromechanical system-based realization is shown and simultaneous 40 Gb/s wavelength conversion, switching and signal format conversion is demonstrated. The new pulse reformatting optical filter device outperforms current schemes with respect to input-power requirements, input-power dynamic range and signal quality.