Js. Perino et al., FIBER TRANSMISSION OF 10GBIT S SIGNALS FOLLOWING WAVELENGTH CONVERSION USING A TRAVELING-WAVE SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER/, Electronics Letters, 30(3), 1994, pp. 256-258
The wavelength of an intensity-modulated signal at 10 Gbit/s was trans
lated from 1546 to 1531 nm using cross gain-compression in a semicondu
ctor optical amplifier. The shifted signal was transmitted with less t
han 1 dB penalty over a 121 km span of dispersion-shifted fibre with t
wo in-line amplifiers. A dispersion penalty of nearly 2 dB is measured
for transmission of 6Gbit/s data over 20km conventional fibre.