Regenerative all optical wavelength conversion of 40-Gb/s DPSK signals using a semiconductor optical amplifier Mach-Zehnder interferometer

25 September 2005

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A novel method of all-optical wavelength conversion of DPSK signal is presented. We demonstrate wavelength conversion of 40-Gb/s DPSK signals with a large dynamic range of input OSNR, and significant reduction of phase fluctuations.