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

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2010.5549276

Filename

5549276