Efficient wide-band and tunable midspan spectral inverter using cascaded nonlinearities in LiNbO<inf>3</inf> waveguides

M. H. Chou; I. Brener; G. Lenz; R. Scotti; E. E. Chaban; J. Shmulovich; D. Philen; S. Kosinski; K. R. Parameswaran; M. M. Fejer

doi:10.1109/68.817501

Efficient wide-band and tunable midspan spectral inverter using cascaded nonlinearities in LiNbO<inf>3</inf> waveguides

M. H. Chou
, I. Brener
, G. Lenz
, R. Scotti
, E. E. Chaban
, J. Shmulovich
, D. Philen
, S. Kosinski
, K. R. Parameswaran
, M. M. Fejer

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A midspan spectral inverter based on cascaded second-order nonlinearities in periodically-poled LiNbO3 waveguides is presented. The device has an external efficiency of -7 dB, has a conversion bandwidth of 70 nm, has negligible excess noise, and can be temperature tuned by more than 8 nm. The device was successfully used in the dispersion compensation of 4×10 Gb/s channels transmitted through 150 km of single-mode fiber. Currently, the device is sensitive to the input polarization. However, this can be resolved based on polarization diversity. The availability of a compact and integrable spectral inverter with almost unity efficiency will lead to the revision of the role of spectral inversion in optical networking.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	82-84
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/68.817501
State	Published - Jan 1 2000
Externally published	Yes

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