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Rapidly tunable all-optical wavelength converter based on single semiconductor optical amplifier delay interferometer

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We demonstrate a rapidly tunable 10 Gb/s all-optical wavelength converter based on a semiconductor optical amplifier delay interferometer and a tunable laser. It uses a 16-channel 100 GHz-spacing digitally tunable multifrequency laser based on a novel external-cavity laser design. The bit sequence on the incoming wavelength is converted alternatively to different wavelengths. Power penalties are 1.1 dB for 30 ns guard-time spacing between wavelength packets.

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  1. Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Crawford Hill Laboratory, 791 Holmdel-Keyport Road, Room HOH R-117, Holmdel, NJ, 07733, USA

    M. Kauer, J. Leuthold & M. Duelk

  2. NetTest Photonetics, 45 avenue Jean Jaures, BP 81, 78344, Les Clayes sous Bois, France

    M. Girault

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Kauer, M., Leuthold, J., Duelk, M. et al. Rapidly tunable all-optical wavelength converter based on single semiconductor optical amplifier delay interferometer. Optical and Quantum Electronics 35, 139–146 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022436211775

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