Performance of Self-Seeded Parametric Multicasting of Analog Signals

Author

Wiberg, Andreas O J ; Brès, Camille-Sophie ; Danicic, Alexander ; Myslivets, Evgeny ; Radic, Stojan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Volume

23

Issue

21

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1570

Lastpage

1572

Abstract

We present noise and distortion measurements of multicast copies generated in a self-seeded parametric mixer. Linear mixer operation is achieved by distortion-free Brillouin suppression resulting in high signal-to-noise and distortion-ratio (SINAD) wavelength copies. SINAD of 48 dB was measured after the multicasting operation, corresponding to a digitized signal having more than 7.7 effective number of bits (ENOB). This represents the most linear and noiseless parametric mixer reported to date.

Keywords

distortion; mixers (circuits); analog signals; distortion measurement; distortion-free Brillouin suppression; distortion-ratio wavelength copies; linear mixer operation; multicast copy; noise measurement; noiseless parametric mixer; self-seeded parametric mixer; self-seeded parametric multicasting; signal-to-noise wavelength copies; Distortion; Harmonic analysis; Mixers; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Power harmonic filters; Signal to noise ratio; Analog systems; four-photon mixing; multicasting; optical parametric amplifier; parametric process;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2163794

Filename

5976372