All-optical wavelength conversion with multicasting at 4×10Gbits/s up and down using a Fabry-Perot laser diode

M. Rakib Uddin; J. S. Cho; Y. H. Won

doi:10.1587/elex.6.566

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All-optical wavelength conversion with multicasting at 4×10Gbits/s up and down using a Fabry-Perot laser diode

M. Rakib Uddin, J. S. Cho, Y. H. Won

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Keywords: FP-LD, bistability, gain modulation, multi-wavelength

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2009 Volume 6 Issue 9 Pages 566-571

DOI https://doi.org/10.1587/elex.6.566

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Abstract

We demonstrate an all-optical wavelength converter with multicasting at 4× 10Gbits/s up and down conversion using gain modulation in an FP-LD. We also explain the gain modulation technique using the bistability behavior of the injection locked FP-LD. The wavelength converter shows the average power penalty of 1.5dB at a bit error rate of 10^-9 and the extinction ratio of outputs over 12dB, both for up and down conversions.

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