Title :
Counter-dithering pump scheme for cascaded degenerate FWM based wavelength converter
Author :
Hung Nguyen Tan ; Inoue, Takeru ; Tanizawa, Ken ; Petit, Stephane ; Oikawa, Yoichi ; Takasaka, Shigehiro ; Yagi, Takeshi ; Namiki, Shu
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol. (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate counter-dithering of pumps between two cascaded FWM processes for highly-efficient format-independent wavelength conversion. Up-to -1.2dB FWM conversion efficiency is obtained over 32-nm. 86-Gbps DP-QPSK are converted with OSNR penalty below 0.3dB at 10-3 BER.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; error statistics; multiwave mixing; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; quadrature phase shift keying; BER; DP-QPSK; FWM conversion efficiency; OSNR; bit error rate; cascaded FWM degenaration based wavelength converter; counter-dithering pump scheme; format-independent wavelength conversion; four wave mixing degeneration; Band-pass filters; Bit error rate; Optical noise; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase shift keying; Q-factor; Signal to noise ratio;
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.W3F.4
