Multipump Four-Wave Mixing in a Photonic Crystal Fiber for 6×10 Gb/s Wavelength Multicasting of DPSK Signals

Author

Fok, Mable P. ; Shu, Chester

Author_Institution

Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Volume

19

Issue

15

fYear

2007

Firstpage

1166

Lastpage

1168

Abstract

We demonstrate differential phase-shift keying wavelength multicasting using four-wave mixing in a 64-m dispersion-flattened highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber. The power penalty is less than 2.9 dB for all the 10-Gb/s multicast channels spaced at 200 GHz.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; multicast communication; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; photonic crystals; telecommunication channels; DPSK signals; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 60 Gbit/s; differential phase-shift keying; dispersion-flattened PCF; frequency 200 GHz; highly nonlinear PCF; multicast channels; multiple wavelength conversion; multipump four-wave mixing; photonic crystal fiber; power penalty; wavelength multicasting; Amplitude modulation; Amplitude shift keying; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber polarization; Optical scattering; Optical wavelength conversion; Photonic crystal fibers; Differential phase-shift keying (DPSK); four-wave mixing (FWM); highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber (PCF); multiple wavelength conversion; wavelength multicasting;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.901450

Filename

4267731