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

fYear

2009

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2009.5307850

Filename

5307850