All-optical wavelength converter using a semiconductor optical a

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1998-09-02

2000-08-08

Hellner, Mark

Optical: systems and elements

Optical amplifier

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359332, H01S 300

Patent

active

061010278

ABSTRACT:
The present invention discloses an all-optical wavelength converter using a semiconductor optical amplifier and a polarization interferometer. The all-optical wavelength converter using a semiconductor optical amplifier and a polarization interferometer including a wavelength converter which modulates a probe light into a inverting waveform to a signal light and outputs the modulated light by using cross gain modulation, a phenomenon that occurs while the signal light and the probe light pass together through an optical splitter/combiner, a semiconductor optical amplifier and a filter at the same time, a polarization interferometer which makes the probe light outputted from the wavelength converter and having the inverting waveform to the signal light undergo a double-refraction so that a predetermined time split occurs on it and provides a non-inverting wavelength conversion and suppresses the slow XGM components in the converted outputs due to the slow carrier recombination time.

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