DocumentCode
161572
Title
Coherently-pumped FWM in HNLF for 16QAM wavelength conversion free of phase noise from pumps
Author
Guo-Wei Lu ; Sakamoto, Takanori ; Kawanishi, Tetsuyas
Author_Institution
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Tokyo, Japan
fYear
2014
fDate
21-25 Sept. 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate a 50-Gbps 16QAM wavelength conversion with <;0.2dB penalty, based on FWM in HNLF using coherent pumps. The coherent pumping makes it independent of the phase noise from pumps and enables the use of cost-effective pump laser.
Keywords
multiwave mixing; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; phase noise; quadrature amplitude modulation; HNLF; QAM wavelength conversion; bit rate 50 Gbit/s; coherently pumped FWM; cost-effective pump laser; four-wave mixing; highly-nonlinear fiber; phase noise; quadrature amplitude modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase noise; Pump lasers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location
Cannes
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964154
Filename
6964154
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