• DocumentCode
    2113946
  • Title

    Experimental demonstration of wavelength conversions of optical 36QAM and 64QAM through FWM in HNLF

  • Author

    Guo-Wei Lu ; Sakamoto, Takanori ; Kawanishi, Tetsuyas

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Koganei, Japan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    8-12 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    677
  • Lastpage
    678
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate wavelength conversions of 50-Gbps 36QAM and 60-Gbps 64QAM through four-wave mixing in highly-nonlinear fiber. Error free operations are successfully achieved for converted high-order QAMs with negligible power penalty at BER of 10-3.
  • Keywords
    error statistics; multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; quadrature amplitude modulation; 36QAM; 64QAM; BER; FWM; HNLF; bit rate 50 Gbit/s; bit rate 60 Gbit/s; four-wave mixing; highly-nonlinear fiber; power penalty; wavelength conversions; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Quadrature amplitude modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Bellevue, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1506-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656476
  • Filename
    6656476