Title :
Phase-preservation capability of all-optical amplitude regenerators using fiber nonlinearity
Author :
Matsumoto, Morio
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Eng., Osaka Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Phase preservation by all-optical amplitude regenerators using fiber nonlinearity is experimentally examined. It is shown that regenerators based on soliton filtering or on saturation of FWM interaction induce less phase fluctuations than that based on spectrum broadening and slicing.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical repeaters; optical solitons; FWM interaction saturation; all-optical amplitude regenerators; fiber nonlinearity; phase fluctuations; phase-preservation capability; soliton filtering; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Optical solitons; Phase shift keying; Repeaters;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215799
