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Suresh M. NISSANKA Ken MISHINA Akihiro MARUTA Shunsuke MITANI Kazuyuki ISHIDA Katsuhiro SHIMIZU Tatsuo HATTA Ken-ichi KITAYAMA
All-optical wavelength conversion and modulation format conversion will be needed in the next generation high-speed optical communication networks. We have proposed and successfully demonstrated the error free operation of all-optical modulation format conversion from NRZ-OOK to RZ-BPSK using SOA based MZI wavelength converter. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the wavelength conversion characteristics of the proposed NRZ-OOK/RZ-BPSK modulation format converter. The results show that error free modulation format conversion is possible over the entire C band.