Title :
Tolerances of counterphased pump-phase modulation in a fibre-based dual-pump wavelength converter for 86 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK
Author :
Richter, Thomas ; Elschner, Robert ; Petermann, Klaus ; Schubert, Colja
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommun., Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
We show the impact of counterphase mismatch of a pump-phase modulation on the residual phase modulation and on the OSNR penalty of a converted signal in a fibre-based dual-pump wavelength converter.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; error statistics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical modulation; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; quadrature phase shift keying; RZ-DQPSK; bit error ratio; bit rate 86 Gbit/s; counterphase mismatch; fibre-based dual-pump wavelength converter; high-power erbium doped fibre amplifiers; optical signal-to-noise ratio penalties; pump-phase modulation; residual phase modulation; Brillouin scattering; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Optical receivers; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase modulation; Signal to noise ratio; Brillouin scattering; differential quadrature phase-shift keying; four-wave mixing; highly non-linear fibre; wavelength conversion;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics in Switching, 2009. PS '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pisa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3857-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3856-3
DOI :
10.1109/PS.2009.5307850
