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Design and analysis of all-optical up- and down-wavelength converter based on FWM of SOA-MZI for 60 Gbps RZ data signal

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In this paper, the design and analysis of the all-optical up- and down-wavelength converter based on four-wave mixing (FWM) effect of semiconductor optical amplifier Mach–Zehnder interferometer (SOA-MZI) have been presented. The return-to-zero (RZ) modulated data signal at a bit rate of 60 Gbps has been evaluated for error-free operation to show the feasibility of proposed system at different pump wavelength. The converted signal power and quality factor are investigated as the function of variable signal power and pump power. The optimized operating input signal power of −5 dBm with Q-factor of \(\sim \)28 dB for RZ modulated signal by using SOA-MZI structure with enhanced FWM effect. The important contribution of these investigations that it is possible to expand the optical network with limited available channel bandwidth by utilizing the wavelength converter and gives an approach to implement wavelength converter for future hybrid optical access networks.

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The authors would like to thank AICTE, New Delhi for their funding to Research Project No. 20/AICTE/RIFD/RPS(POLICY-1)60/2013-14.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Sangrur, Punjab, 148106, India

    Surinder Singh & Sukhbir Singh

  2. Broadband Info Communications and Electromagnetics Department, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

    Nada Badraoui & Tibor Berceli

  3. School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Akram Alomainy

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Singh, S., Singh, S., Badraoui, N. et al. Design and analysis of all-optical up- and down-wavelength converter based on FWM of SOA-MZI for 60 Gbps RZ data signal. Photon Netw Commun 34, 288–297 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-017-0696-x

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