Self-seeded multicasting of 320 Gb/s data in a 2-pump parametric amplifier

Author

Brès, C.S. ; Wiberg, A.O.J. ; Windmiller, J.R. ; Alic, N. ; Radic, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report first experimental demonstration of single stage, self-seeded 2-pump fiber optic parametric amplifier for simultaneous wavelength conversions. 320 Gb/s single channel OTDM signal was successfully copied to 5 wavelengths with <3 dB Q-factor penalty.

Keywords

Q-factor; multicast communication; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; optical transmitters; optical wavelength conversion; telecommunication channels; time division multiplexing; 2-pump parametric amplifier; Q-factor; bit rate 320 Gbit/s; self-seeded multicasting; single channel OTDM signal; single stage self-seeded amplifier; wavelength conversions; Band pass filters; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Ultrafast optics; (060.2320) Fiber optics amplifier and oscillators; (060.4255) Networks, multicast; (190.4410) Nonlinear optics, parametric processes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2606-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-865-0

Type

conf

Filename

5032528