• DocumentCode
    161020
  • Title

    Efficient binary phase quantizer based on phase sensitive four wave mixing

  • Author

    Parmigiani, F. ; Slavik, R. ; Hesketh, G. ; Horak, P. ; Petropoulos, P. ; Richardson, D.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate an efficient binary phase quantizer operating at low pump powers. Phase-sensitive operation is obtained by polarization mixing the phase-locked signal/idler pair in a degenerate dual-pump vector parametric amplifier.
  • Keywords
    multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; degenerate dual-pump vector parametric amplifier; efficient binary phase quantizer; low pump powers; phase sensitive four wave mixing; phase-locked signal/idler pair; phase-sensitive operation; polarization mixing; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Phase noise;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2014.6963866
  • Filename
    6963866