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Wavelength converters characterization based on four-wave mixing and cross-gain modulation using semiconductor optical amplifiers of diverse cavity lengths

✍ Napoleão S. Ribeiro; Cristiano M. Gallep; Evandro Conforti 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 203 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract Semiconductor optical amplifiers of various lengths are characterized in relation to the four‐wave mixing (FWM) properties, followed by the implementation of wavelength converters based on the cross‐gain modulation and FWM. The relative efficiencies of the converters are analyzed and th