Wideband Wavelength Conversion of 16 Gbaud 16-QAM Signals in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2013.oth1c.5
• Publication Date: 2013-04-04T22:07:06Z
• Authors: Benoit Filion; Siamak Amiralizadeh; An T. Nguyen; Leslie A. Rusch; Sophie LaRochelle
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

We demonstrate wavelength conversion of 16-QAM signals over the entire C-band with low power penalty (<;1.5 dB) at the FEC threshold using a dual pump configuration. We also investigate the power penalty dependence on input OSNR.