Title :
Phase locking and carrier extraction schemes for phase sensitive amplification
Author :
Sygletos, Stylianos ; Weerasuriya, Ruwan ; Ibrahim, Selwan K. ; Gunning, Fatima ; Phelan, Richard ; O´Gorman, James ; O´Carrol, John ; Kelly, Brian ; Bogris, Antonis ; Syvridis, Dimitris ; Lundström, Carl ; Andrekson, Peter ; Parmigiani, Francesca ; Richa
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
We demonstrate two schemes which enable simultaneous phase locking, carrier extraction and frequency shifting for use in stand-alone phase sensitive amplifiers. The schemes provide phase locked pumps at appropriate frequency spacing for a number of non-degenerate PSA configurations.
Keywords :
amplifiers; optical communication equipment; carrier extraction; frequency shifting; phase locked pumps; phase sensitive amplification; stand-alone phase sensitive amplifiers; Binary phase shift keying; Frequency synchronization; Injection-locked oscillators; Noise figure; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical noise; Pump lasers; Signal generators; Signal to noise ratio; Nonlinear optics; four-wave mixing; injection-locking; lasers; optical phase locking; phase sensitive amplification;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2010 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7799-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7797-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2010.5549276
