Polarisation-insensitive wavelength converter based on cascaded nonlinearities in LiNbO3 waveguides

Authors

I. Brener, I. M. H. Chou, E. Chaban, K. R. Parameswaran, M. M. Fejer, S. Kosinski, D. L. Pruitt

Abstract

A polarisation-independent wavelength converter using cascaded nonlinearities in periodically-poled LiNbO3 waveguides has been developed. The device uses a pump in the 1.5 μm band, has negligible polarisation sensitivity and a penalty of <0.5 dB at 10 Gbit/s.

Journal

Electronics Letters

Volume

36

Number

1

Date

01/2000
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