Polarization-independent all-optical amplitude limiter using two-stage gain-saturated fiber parametric amplifiers

Author

Watanabe, Shigeki ; Futami, Fumio ; Okabe, Ryo ; Kato, Tomoyuki ; Ludwig, Reinhold ; Schmidt-Langhorst, Carsten ; Schubert, Colja

Author_Institution

Fujitsu Labs. Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

13-17 July 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A polarization-independent optical limiter is proposed using two-stage polarization-diversity configured optical parametric amplifiers in gain-saturated condition. Its amplitude level equalizing effect is successfully demonstrated for a 40 Gb/s signal with less than 0.2 dB polarization dependence.

Keywords

light polarisation; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical limiters; optical parametric amplifiers; optical saturation; amplitude level equalizing effect; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; polarization-diversity configured OPA; polarization-independent all-optical amplitude limiter; two-stage gain-saturated fiber parametric amplifier; Brillouin scattering; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2009. OECC 2009. 14th

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4102-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4103-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OECC.2009.5218177

Filename

5218177