• DocumentCode
    1794371
  • Title

    An optical phase quantiser exhibiting suppressed phase dependent gain variation

  • Author

    Bottrill, K.R.H. ; Hesketh, G. ; Parmigiani, F. ; Horak, P. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Petropoulos, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    9-13 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate an all-optical phase quantiser based on phase-sensitive amplification which alleviates phase noise to amplitude noise conversion. Phase transfer functions are measured for the very first time using a novel scheme.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre communication; optical filters; phase noise; quantisation (signal); transfer functions; all-optical phase quantiser; amplitude noise conversion; phase noise; phase transfer functions; phase-sensitive amplification; suppressed phase dependent variation; Harmonic analysis; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Phase measurement; Power harmonic filters; Repeaters; Transfer functions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-5575-2994-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1364/OFC.2014.W3F.7
  • Filename
    6887135