A new optical routing technique with a subcarrier clock controlled wavelength converter

We demonstrate wavelength conversion and routing at 2.5 Gb/s over 100-km fi ber links using a wavelength converter based on a time-to-wavelength mapped mode-locked laser. Wavelength tuning is controlled by an RF clock multiple xed as a subcarrier on a transmitted nonreturn-to-zero signal. Wavelength c onversion of a 1550-nm input signal to nine output wavelengths spanning a r ange of 16 nn is demonstrated. The RF clock rate is approximately 10 GHz.