Tunable wavelength conversion in a semiconductor-fiber ring laser

A tunable wavelength converter is demonstrated using highly nondegenerate four-wave mixing in a semiconductor-fiber ring cavity with no external pump light and low input signal power requirements. This device allows continuous tuning of both pump and converted wavelengths over the semiconductor opti...

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Published in:IEEE photonics technology letters 1999-07, Vol.11 (7), p.806-808
Main Authors: Lu, Z.G., Boothroyd, S.A., Chrostowski, J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Conversion
Four-wave mixing
Holes
Laser tuning
Optical tuning
Optical wavelength conversion
Pump lasers
Pumps
Ring lasers
Semiconductor lasers
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
Tunable circuits and devices
Tuning
Wavelength conversion
Wavelengths
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Summary:A tunable wavelength converter is demonstrated using highly nondegenerate four-wave mixing in a semiconductor-fiber ring cavity with no external pump light and low input signal power requirements. This device allows continuous tuning of both pump and converted wavelengths over the semiconductor optical amplifier gain bandwidth. Results for 11.8-nm down- and 6.9-nm up-wavelength conversion with input signal power as low as -10 dBm have been obtained at 1 Gb/s with less than 1.6-dB power penalty.
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/68.769714