New description of transmission of an SOA-based Sagnac loop and its application for NRZ wavelength conversion

Lei Xu; Varghese Baby; Ivan Glesk; Paul R. Prucnal

doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2004.09.057

New description of transmission of an SOA-based Sagnac loop and its application for NRZ wavelength conversion

Lei Xu, Varghese Baby, Ivan Glesk, Paul R. Prucnal

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Abstract

Sagnac interferometric loops with a semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) have found important applications for optical signal processing and communication networks. We derive a new description of the transmission of an SOAbased Sagnac loop by including the influence of loop birefringence. Based on this new description, we theoretically analyze and experimentally demonstrate NRZ wavelength conversion using a Sagnac loop with an SOA at asymmetric position. We also show that the converted signal with an SOA-based Sagnac loop has lower pattern dependent effect and smaller power penalty compared with the converted signal using cross gain modulation effect.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	199-208
Number of pages	10
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	244
Issue number	1-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2004.09.057
State	Published - Jan 3 2005
Externally published	Yes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

Optical communication
Optical frequency conversion
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
Wavelength-division multiplexing

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New description of transmission of an SOA-based Sagnac loop and its application for NRZ wavelength conversion

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