Performance analysis of electro-absorption modulator-based multi-wavelength converter

This paper reports the performance analysis of multi-wavelength converter based on electro-absorption modulator at 10 Gb/s. It has been observed that the input signal wavelength converted into fourteen different wavelength and we observed the performance of converted wavelength only at 1552.02, 1550, 1553.99, 1542.03, 1546.03, 1556.02 and 1558 nm because the rest of converted wavelength quality has poor. The influence of two parameters such as input signal power (−30 to 30 dBm) and probe signal power (0, −2, 2, 6.99, 10 dBm) of EAM on multi-wavelength conversion performance analyzed by measuring quality factor and converted output signal power. The best converted signal quality is obtained for 10 dBm input signal power with 6.99 dBm probe signal power for this multi-wavelength converter. Further, quality factor, conversion efficiency and extinction ratio are observed as the function of input signal power.