Vol. 46, Issue 3, pp. 347-352 (2016)
Keywords
wavelength conversion, fiber ring lasers, erbium-doped fiber, electroabsorption modulator, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network
Abstract
A wavelength conversion scheme is presented experimentally using a wavelength tunable erbium-doped fiber laser as a probe light source and an electroabsorption modulator with a DC bias only. For the input wavelength of 1557 nm with a 10-Gb/s non-return to zero signal, the Q value is 10.6 and the power penalty is less than 1.5 dB at a bit error rate of 10–9 at the probe wavelength of 1560 nm. Given a fixed Q value of 6, probe wavelengths cover a range of 25 nm. Furthermore, the relationship between the range of probe wavelength and the amount of power penalty is also investigated.