Abstract
We propose a novel all-optical NRZ-OOK/RZ-BPSK format conversion scheme, using cross-phase modulation effects in a MZI-SOA. We experimentally demonstrate error free conversion at 10.7 Gb/s with a negative power penalty of 2.9 dB.
© 2006 Optical Society of America
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