Title :
Self-seeded 1-to-60 multicasting in a two-pump parametric mixer
Author :
Kuo, Bill P -P ; Myslivets, Evgeny ; Alic, Nikola ; Radic, Stojan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a new multicasting scheme requiring only two CW tones to deliver spectrally-distinct copies of the input channel. 1-to-60 multicasting operation was achieved with 28 mW per-copy power efficiency and sensitivity penalty of 0.18 dB.
Keywords :
mixers (circuits); multicast communication; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical parametric devices; passive optical networks; wavelength division multiplexing; continuous wave tone; power 28 mW; self seeded multicasting; sensitivity penally; spectrally-distinct input channel copies; two pump parametric mixer; Bit error rate; Mixers; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
