Title :
Colorless Regenerative Amplification of Constant Envelope Phase-Modulated Optical Signals Based on Injection-Locked Fabry–Pérot Lasers
Author :
Fragkos, Alexandros ; Bogris, Adonis ; Syvridis, Dimitris ; Phelan, Richard
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Telecommun., Nat. & Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece
Abstract :
An efficient phase preserving amplitude noise limiter suitable for constant envelope phase-modulated signals is experimentally demonstrated for 10-Gb/s differential phase-shift-keying (DPSK) signals exploiting injection locking in Fabry-Pérot lasers. The limiter operates successfully over a 16.4-nm tuning range leading to 12 dB of power penalty reduction for 10-3 of bit-error-rate (BER) performance.
Keywords :
amplification; differential phase shift keying; error statistics; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser tuning; optical limiters; optical modulation; phase modulation; DPSK signals; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit-error-rate performance; colorless regenerative amplification; constant envelope phase-modulated optical signals; differential phase-shift-keying; injection-locked Fabry-Perot lasers; laser tuning; phase preserving amplitude noise limiter; power penalty reduction; wavelength 16.4 nm; Laser noise; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Semiconductor lasers; Injection-locked amplifiers; laser applications; limiting; noise and optical signal processing; phase modulation;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2011.2171941
