Single Wide Band Traveling Wave Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers for All Optical Bidirectional Wavelength Conversion

Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is a very important technique to utilize the bandwidth of optical fiber; multiple channels can be transmitted in the same fiber cable at the same time, and each channel has individual wavelength. At different network node, it’s required to add or drop wavelength, wavelength converter process is a technique responsible for converting the wavelength of signal to other wavelength up or down from the original value. This paper has presented a proposed model to generate inverted and non-inverted wavelength conversion by using single wide band traveling wave semiconductor optical amplifier (WBSOA), based on cross-gain modulation. The investigation of conversion efficiency (η) and quality factor (Q), versus pump power ranged value from −30 to 0 dB m, and input signal power is 0 dB m with data rate 25 Gb/s, are studied for up and down-wavelength conversion, “co-propagation” and “counter-propagation”, respectively. The simulation results indicate that, to get maximum conversion efficiency and maximum quality factor by using single WBSOA, the pump power should be located between −30 to −20 dB m for maximum conversion efficiency and equal to −10 dB m for maximum quality factor, that for up- and down-wavelength conversion, co-propagation and counter-propagation.