Scalable Multicasting in One-Pump Parametric Amplifier

Author

Brés, Camille-Sophie ; Alic, Nikola ; Myslivets, Evgeny ; Radic, Stojan

Author_Institution

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

Volume

27

Issue

3

fYear

2009

Firstpage

356

Lastpage

363

Abstract

We report the experimental demonstration of all-optical wavelength multicasting of OC-768 (40 Gbps) channel using a single-pass, pump modulated parametric amplifier. The performances of 1-to-20 and 1-to-40 multicasting with excellent signal fidelity were observed. The impairment mechanisms were identified from cascaded filtering, linear and nonlinear crosstalk. It is shown that the parametric amplifier offers a wide range of operation characterized by minimal multicast penalty. We show that all multicast channels have an error free performance with Q factors well above the forward error correction (FEC) limit within the designed operating range.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical crosstalk; optical design techniques; optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; FEC; all-optical wavelength multicasting; cascaded filtering method; fiber optic parametric amplifier; forward error correction; linear crosstalk; multicast channel penalty; nonlinear crosstalk; pump modulated parametric amplifier; single-pass parametric amplifier; wavelength division multiplexing; Forward error correction; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical crosstalk; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Optical sensors; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Fiber optics amplifier; multicasting; nonlinear optics; parametric process;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2008.2010060

Filename

4785270