Title :
Coherently-pumped 20Gbaud 16QAM optical wavelength shifting free of phase noise from 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. (NICT), Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate an optical wavelength shifting scheme of 20Gbaud 16QAM based on cascaded 2nd-order nonlinearities in PPLN using coherent pumps, which is free of the phase noise from pumps.
Keywords :
lithium compounds; optical communication; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; quadrature amplitude modulation; PPLN; cascaded 2nd-order nonlinearities; coherent pumps; coherently-pumped 16QAM optical wavelength shifting; periodically poled lithium niobate; quadrature amplitude modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Phase noise;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fibre Technology, 2014 OptoElectronics and Communication Conference and Australian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC