All Optical NRZ-to-RZ conversion for 43-Gbps Signals for Generation of 172-Gbps OTDM Signals Using Intersubband Transition MQW Optical Gate

Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria

Proceedings: ECOC 2009

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Kurosu, T.; Namiki, S.; Akimoto, R.; Kuwatsuka, H.; Hasama, T.; Ishikawa, H. (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)

Abstract:
We demonstrate all optical NRZ-to-RZ conversion at a bit rate of 43 Gbps using an intersubband transition optical gate. The converted 2-ps RZ pulses were successfully applied to generate 172-Gbps OTDM signals.