Interferometric noise suppression by means of dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror over a wavelength range of 28 nm

Author

Chai, Y.J. ; Khrushchev, I.Y. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Cambridge Univ., UK

Volume

14

Issue

3

fYear

2002

fDate

3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

417

Lastpage

419

Abstract

Signal quality enhancement and interferometric noise suppression have been demonstrated by nonlinear filtering in a dispersion imbalanced loop mirror. The nonlinear filter improves the signal extinction ratio by more then 10 dB and simultaneously increases the acceptable noise level by 15 dB. The improvement is constant throughout a wide wavelength range of 28 nm within the C-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier region.

Keywords

interference suppression; light interferometry; mirrors; nonlinear filters; nonlinear optics; optical crosstalk; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre filters; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; C-band EDFA region; OTDM/WDM transmission; acceptable noise level; crosstalk level; dispersion imbalanced loop mirror; interferometric noise suppression; nonlinear filtering; optical time-division-multiplexing; signal extinction ratio; signal quality enhancement; wavelength-division-multiplexing; wide wavelength range; Crosstalk; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Filtering; Mirrors; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Optical pulses; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.986832

Filename

986832