Title :
Pump-linewidth-tolerant wavelength conversion with coherent pumps
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., Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We propose a pump-linewidth-tolerant wavelength conversion scheme with coherent two-tone pump, and demonstrate high quality wavelength conversion of 64QAM signals with <;0.3-dB penalty at BER of 10-3 even using 3.5MHz-linewidth DFB pump source.
Keywords :
error statistics; light coherence; optical modulation; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; quadrature amplitude modulation; 64QAM signals; BER; DFB pump source; coherent two-tone pump; pump-linewidth-tolerant wavelength conversion; Bit error rate; Laser excitation; Laser noise; Optical noise; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase noise; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
