[WF1] Electro-Optical Subsystems

[WF1-2] Photonic Digital-to-Analog Conversion Based on Blue Chirp Spectral Slicing Using a Quantum-Dot SOA

〇Takuya Okada, Tatsuya Ohtsuki, Ryuichi Kobayashi, Motoharu Matsuura (The Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan)

キーワード：Optical signal processing, modulation, coding/decoding and compensation/error correction techniques for advanced photonic switching system

We propose a photonic digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) based on frequency chirp using a quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier and following blue-shift filtering. We experimentally demonstrate 10-Gbps all-optical binary-to-quaternary conversion for DACs.