Experimental Demonstration of Cascadable PPLN-Based Inter-Band Wavelength Converters for Band-Switchable Multi-Band Optical Cross-Connect
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Minami, Haruka; Hirose, Kenta; Fukatani, Takafumi; Nakagawa, Masahiro; Seki, Takeshi; Shimizu, Shimpei; Kobayashi, Takayuki; Kazama, Takushi; Enbutsu, Koji; Watanabe, Kei; Umeki, Takeshi; Miyamura, Takashi; Kuwahara, Takeshi
- Source
- 2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2023. :1-3 Mar, 2023
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Degradation
Optical fibers
Optical wavelength conversion
Optimization
- Language
We experimentally demonstrate the cascadability of PPLN-based inter-band wavelength converters to realize band-switchable multi-band optical cross-connect. Experimental results show that input power optimization can reduce the degradation in transmission quality even when traversing >20 converters.