4 Gb/s optical wavelength conversion using semiconductor optical amplifiers

C. Jœrgensen, T. Durhuus, C. Braagaard, B. Mikkelsen, K.E. Stubkjaer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 1993 · 78 citations · 8 references

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Semiconductor optical amplifiers used for efficient wavelength conversion up to 4 Gb/s are discussed. The rise and fall times as well as extinction ratio are experimentally analyzed. System performance at 4 Gb/s is evaluated showing a penalty of only 1.5 dB for the converted signal for conversion over 17 nm.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

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