• DocumentCode
    161581
  • Title

    Pump-linewidth-tolerant optical data exchange between 16QAM and QPSK with 50-GHz channel-spacing using coherent DFB pump

  • Author

    Guo-Wei Lu ; Albuquerque, Andre ; Puttnam, B.J. ; Sakamoto, Takanori ; Drummond, Miguel ; Nogueira, Rogerio ; Kanno, Atsushi ; Shinada, S. ; Wada, N. ; 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 propose and experimentally demonstrate optical data exchange scheme between 16QAM and QPSK with narrow spacing of 50GHz. The use of coherent pump makes it free of phase noise from pumps, and enables the use of low-cost DFB as pump source.
  • Keywords
    distributed feedback lasers; optical information processing; optical pumping; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; 16QAM; QPSK; channel spacing; coherent DFB pump; pump-linewidth-tolerant optical data exchange; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase noise; Phase shift keying; Pump lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964158
  • Filename
    6964158