Patterning effect mitigation using complementary data for NRZ wavelength conversion with a SOA-MZI

Gang Wang; Xuelin Yang; Qiwei Weng; Weisheng Hu

doi:10.1117/12.904084

28 November 2011 Patterning effect mitigation using complementary data for NRZ wavelength conversion with a SOA-MZI

Gang Wang, Xuelin Yang, Qiwei Weng, Weisheng Hu

Proceedings Volume 8308, Optoelectronic Materials and Devices VI; 83080F (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.904084
Event: SPIE/OSA/IEEE Asia Communications and Photonics, 2011, Shanghai, China

Abstract

A novel scheme of Non-Return-to-Zero (NRZ) all-optical wavelength conversion is proposed using a semiconductor optical amplifier based Mach-Zehnder interferometer (SOA-MZI), where the complementary NRZ data is used to mitigate SOA patterning effect. The performances of the wavelength converters are numerically evaluated in terms of the waveform, eye-diagram and Q factor of the output signals at 40 Gb/s, using a time-domain SOA model. It is shown that the new complementary scheme significantly improves the Q factor of the converted signal from 3.8 to 8.1, compared with the traditional scheme.

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Gang Wang, Xuelin Yang, Qiwei Weng, and Weisheng Hu "Patterning effect mitigation using complementary data for NRZ wavelength conversion with a SOA-MZI", Proc. SPIE 8308, Optoelectronic Materials and Devices VI, 83080F (28 November 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.904084

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