Four-Wave Mixing based Wavelength Conversion in a Carbon Nanotubes Deposited Tapered Fiber

Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria

Proceedings: ECOC 2009

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Chow, K. K.; Tsuji, M.; Yamashita, S. (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan)

Abstract:
We report the observation of four-wave mixing in carbon nanotubes deposited around a tapered fiber with optical deposition method. Wavelength conversion of 10 Gb/s non-return-to-zero signal is demonstrated using the generated four-wave mixing effect.