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Opt Lett
; 30(13): 1716-8, 2005 Jul 01.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16075548
RESUMO
We experimentally investigate and compare the effects of copropagating and counterpropagating directions on a semiconductor optical amplifier-Mach-Zehnder interferometer based wavelength converter. When an assist light is not used, the copropagating scheme induces a long rise-fall time and small timing jitter, whereas the counterpropagating scheme induces a short rise-fall time and large timing jitter. The results show that the copropagating scheme with a backward assist light yields the best performance.