Influence of phase mismatch on a spectral inverter based on four-wave mixing in dispersion-shifted fiber at 10 Gb/s

Author

Zacharopoulos, I. ; Tomkos, I. ; Syvridis, D. ; Girardin, F. ; Occhi, L. ; Guekos, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Athens Univ., Greece

Volume

11

Issue

4

fYear

1999

fDate

4/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

430

Lastpage

432

Abstract

We investigate the influence of phase mismatch on the performance of a spectral inverter based on four-wave mixing in a commercial dispersion-shifted fiber. The inverter operates at 10 Gb/s. When the pump wave is tuned /spl plusmn/0.3 mn around the zero-dispersion wavelength of the fiber, the power penalty at 10/sup -9/ bit-error rate remains within the range of 1-2 dB, although the conjugate power is reduced considerably by almost 6 dB. A numerical calculation of the inverter´s efficiency is also presented, which takes into account longitudinal variation of the zero-dispersion wavelength along the fiber.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical pumping; 10 Gbit/s; bit-error rate; commercial dispersion-shifted fiber; conjugate power; dispersion-shifted fiber; four-wave mixing; longitudinal variation; phase mismatch; power penalty; pump wave tuning; spectral inverter; zero-dispersion wavelength; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Four-wave mixing; Frequency conversion; Inverters; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical frequency conversion; Propagation constant; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.752538

Filename

752538