Title :
Polarization-insensitive phase-transmultiplexing of CSRZOOK and RZ-BPSK to RZ-QPSK via XPM in a PCF
Author :
Cannon, B.M. ; Mahmood, T. ; Astar, W. ; Boudra, P. ; Mohsenin, Tinoosh ; Carter, Gary M.
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Phys. Sci., College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
By utilizing cross-phase modulation, we demonstrated polarization-insensitive phase-transmultiplexing to RZ-QPSK in a photonic crystal fiber. The measured receiver sensitivity penalty at 10-9 BER was ≈1.8 dB for a randomly polarized CSRZ-OOK signal.
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; holey fibres; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; photonic crystals; quadrature phase shift keying; transmultiplexing; BER; RZ-BPSK; RZ-QPSK; XPM; cross-phase modulation; photonic crystal fiber; polarization-insensitive phase-transmultiplexing; randomly polarized CSRZ-OOK signal; receiver sensitivity; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Optical attenuators; Probes; Receivers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th4C.5
