All-optical wavelength conversion and broadcasting to eight separate channels by a single semiconductor optical amplifier delay interferometer

• DOI: 10.1109/ofc.2002.1036585
• Publication Date: 2003-06-25T19:21:35Z
• Authors: J.L. Pleumeekers; J. Leuthold; M. Kauer; P. Bernasconi; C.A. Burrus; M. Cappuzzo; E. Chen; L. Gomez; E. Laskowski
• Keywords: Gigabit; SIGNAL (programming language)

We have demonstrated an all-optical broadcast experiment in which a 10 Gbit/s RZ data signal is simultaneously converted into up to 8 different wavelengths. A single SOA with delay interferometer was used. Bit error rate measurements showed power penalty of less than 1.5 dB for configurations