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  • Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2006),
  • paper OThB4

Data-Polarization-Insensitive Wavelength Conversion in a PPLN Waveguide by Cross-Polarization-Modulation of the Pump using an SOA

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Abstract

We demonstrate a novel method of wavelength-conversion in a PPLN-waveguide using polarization-modulation of its pump. Polarization-insensitive, all-optical, intensity-to-polarization conversion in an SOA is used to reduce the PPLN waveguide’s polarization-sensitivity from >30dB to <1 dB.

© 2006 Optical Society of America

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