Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 4, 368(2010)

Wavelength conversion of chaotic message through gain modulation by injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diode

Yanqing Ding, Anbang Wang, Mingjiang Zhang, Hucheng He, Xiaochun Li, and Yuncai Wang
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  • Physics Department, College of Science, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
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    We propose a wavelength conversion scheme for chaotic optical communications (COC) based on a Fabry-Perot (FP) laser diode. The FP laser, as a wavelength converter, is injection-locked at one of longitudinal modes by an external continuous-wave (CW) light. The simulation results demonstrated that the chaos masked signal at wavelength \lambda1, which corresponds to the other longitudinal mode of FP laser, can be converted to the injection-locked mode (wavelength \lambda 2) based on cross-gain modulation in a closed-loop COC link. A 1.2-GHz chaos masked sinusoidal signal is successfully decoded with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) beyond 8 dB in 15-nm wavelength conversion range, and the effects of SNR on the signal frequency and conversion span are also investigated.

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    Yanqing Ding, Anbang Wang, Mingjiang Zhang, Hucheng He, Xiaochun Li, Yuncai Wang. Wavelength conversion of chaotic message through gain modulation by injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diode[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(4): 368

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    Received: Jun. 22, 2009

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Apr. 20, 2010

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20100804.0368

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