All-Optical Wavelength Conversion With Extinction Ratio ...

944 IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, VOL. 46, NO. 6, JUNE 2010
[4] T. Durhuus, B. Mikkelsen, C. Joergensen, S. L. Danielsen, and K.
Stubkjaer, “All-optical wavelength conversion by semiconductor optical
amplifiers,” J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 942–954, 1996.
[5] C. Joergensen, S. Danielsen, K. Stubkjaer, M. Schilling, K. Daub, P.
Doussiere, F. Pommerau, P. Hansen, H. Poulsen, A. Kloch, M. Vaa, B.
Mikkelsen, E. Lach, G. Laube, W. Idler, and K. Wunstel, “All-optical
wavelength conversion at bit rates above 10 Gb/s using semiconductor
optical amplifiers,” IEEE Sel. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 3, no. 5,
pp. 1168–1180, 1997.
[6] D. Wolfson, A. Kloch, T. Fjelde, C. Janz, B. Dagens, and M. Renaud,
“40 Gb/s all-optical wavelength conversion, regeneration and demultiplexing
in an SOA-based all-active Mach-Zehnder interferometer,”
IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 332–334, 2000.
[7] G. Contestabile, R. Proietti, N. Calabretta, and E. Ciaramella,
“Cross-gain compression in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” J.
Lightw. Technol., vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 915–921, 2007.
[8] H. Chayet, S. B. Ezra, N. Shachar, S. Tzadok, S. Tsadka, and J.
Leuthold, “Regenerative all-optical wavelength converter based on
semiconductor optical amplifier and sharp frequency response filter,”
in Proc. OFC, 2004, ThS2.
[9] R. J. Manning, X. Yang, R. P. Webb, R. Giller, F. C. Garcia Gunning,
and A. D. Ellis, “The ‘Turbo-Switch’—A novel technique to increase
the high-speed response of SOAs for wavelength conversion,” in Proc.
OFC, 2006, paper OWS8.
[10] J. Leuthold, L. Möller, J. Jaques, S. Cabot, L. Zhang, P. Bernasconi,
M. Cappuzzo, L. Gomez, E. Laskowski, E. Chen, A. Wong-Foy, and
A. Griffin, “160 Gb/s SOA all-optical wavelength converter and assessment
of its regenerative properties,” Electron. Lett., vol. 40, no. 9, pp.
554–555, 2004.
[11] J. Leuthold, W. Freude, G. Boettger, J. Wang, P. Vorreau, and A. Marculescu,
“Trends in the field of all-optical wavelength conversion and
regeneration for communication up to 160 Gb/s,” in Proc. ECOC, 2005,
Tu.3.3.6.
[12] U. Busolt, G. Bramann, H.-J. Wünsche, C. Schmidt, B. Sartorius,
H.-P. Nolting, and T. Rosin, “Two-wave competition for all-optical
signal processing: First experimental verification in ultra-long SOAs,”
in Proc. ECOC, Rimini, 2003, Th3.5.1.
[13] G. Bramann, H.-J. Wünsche, U. Busolt, C. Schmidt, M. Schlak, B. Sartorius,
and H.-P. Nolting, “Two-wave competition in ultralong semiconductor
optical amplifiers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 41, no.
10, pp. 1260–1267, 2005.
[14] P. Runge, R. Elschner, C.-A. Bunge, and K. Petermann, “Extinction
ratio improvement in ultralong semiconductor optical amplifiers,”
IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 578–585, 2009.
[15] A. Bogatov, P. Eliseev, and B. Sverdlov, “Anomalous interaction of
spectral modes in a semiconductor laser,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron.,
vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 510–515, 1975.
[16] A. Uskov, J. Mørk, and J. Mark, “Wave mixing in semiconductor laser
amplifiers due to carrier heating and spectral-hole burning,” IEEE J.
Quantum Electron., vol. 30, no. 8, pp. 1769–1781, 1994.
[17] A. Mecozzi and J. Mørk, “Saturation effects in nondegenerate fourwave
mixing between short optical pulses in semiconductor laser amplifiers,”
IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 1190–1207,
1997.
[18] G. Toptchiyski, S. Kindt, K. Petermann, E. Hilliger, S. Diez, and H.
G. Weber, “Time-domain modeling of semiconductor optical amplifiers
for OTDM applications,” J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 17, no. 12, pp.
2577–2583, 1999.
[19] J. Leuthold, M. Mayer, J. Eckner, G. Guekos, H. Melchior, and C.
Zellweger, “Material gain of bulk 1.55 m InGaAsP/InP semiconductor
optical amplifiers approximated by a polynomial model,” J.
Appl. Phys., vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 618–620, 2000.
[20] P. Runge, R. Elschner, and K. Petermann, “Optimising four-wave
mixing in ultralong SOAs,” in Proc. NUSOD ’09, Gwangju, 2009.
[21] P. Runge, R. Elschner, C.-A. Bunge, K. Petermann, M. Schlak, W.
Brinker, and B. Sartorius, “Operational conditions for the extinction
ratio improvement in ultralong SOAs,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.,
vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 106–108, 2009.
[22] P. Runge, K. Petermann, W. Brinker, M. Schlak, and B. Sartorius, “Supercontinuum
generating in ultralong SOAs—Theory and experiment,”
in Proc. ECOC, Vienna, Austria, 2009.
Patrick Runge was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1979. He received the Dipl.-Ing.
degree in computer science from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany,
in 2005.
From 2005 to 2007 he was with Hymite GmbH, where he was involved in
the design and measurement of optoelectronic packages for optical communication.
In 2007, he returned to the Technische Universität Berlin to pursue the
Ph.D. degree, where he is currently researching the physics and applications of
ultralong semiconductor optical amplifiers.
Christian-Alexander Bunge (S’01–A’02–M’03) was born in Berlin, Germany,
in 1973. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from university
of technology Berlin (TU Berlin) in 1999. Until 2002, he was with TU
Berlin’s photonics group of Prof. Petermann, where he received his Ph.D.
From 2002 to 2004, he was with the Polymer Optical Fiber Application
Center (POF-AC) in Nuremberg, where he was responsible for fibre modelling
and short-haul systems design. In 2004, he joined the TU Berlin as senior scientist,
working on high-speed optical transmission systems, studying nonlinear
optics, and modelling of optical components. In 2009, he became professor
at Deutsche Telekom’s university for telecommunication in Leipzig, where
his main research interests are short-haul and access transmission techniques,
multimode glass and polymer-fibre links, and signal processing.
Klaus Petermann (M’76–SM’85–F’09) was born in Mannheim, Germany in
1951. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in 1974 and the Dr.-Ing. degree in 1976,
both in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität Braunschweig,
Germany.
From 1974 to 1976, he was a Research Associate at the Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik,
Technische Universität Braunschweig, where he worked on
optical waveguide theory. From 1977 to 1983, he was with AEG-Telefunken,
Forschungsinstitut, Ulm, Germany, where he was engaged in research work
on semiconductor lasers, optical fibers, and optical fiber sensors. In 1983, he
became a Full Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. His
current research interests include optical fiber communications and integrated
optics.
Dr. Petermann is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science.
He is the recipient of the Leibniz Award from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
in 1993, and the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the Laser and
Electro-Optics Society within the IEEE in 1999/2000. From 1999 to 2004, he
was an Associate Editor of the IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS. From
1996 to 2004, he was a member of the board of the Verband Der Elektrotechnik
Elektronik Informationstechnik (VDE). From 2004 to 2006, he was the Vice
President for research at the Technische Universität Berlin.
Authorized licensed use limited to: Technische Universitaet Berlin. Downloaded on March 29,2010 at 05:14:58 EDT from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions apply.