Optical labelling through parametric amplification

Author

Abbade, M.L.F. ; Costa, A.L.A. ; Marconi, J.D. ; Cardoso, V.V. ; Fragnito, H.L. ; Moschim, E.

Author_Institution

PUC-Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A new all-optical technique to label on-off keyed (OOK) payload signals is experimentally analysed. Such all-optical operation is accomplished by using a fibre optical parametric amplifier (FOPA) with the pump modulated by label information to amplify the OOK payload; as a result, the signal at the output of the FOPA becomes a ternary-amplitude optical packet (TAOP). It is shown that the technique may generate TAOPs with different power level distributions. Furthermore, the TAOP was propagated through a link on a field-trial network. The obtained eye-penalties are inferior to 0.7 dB and suggest that the optical packet could be properly propagated through metropolitan area networks.

Keywords

optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; all optical technique; fibre optical parametric amplifier; metropolitan area networks; on off keyed payload signals; optical labelling; parametric amplification; pump modulated; ternary amplitude optical packet; Integrated optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical packet switching; Optical pumping; Parametric amplification; optical labelling; optical packets; transparent optical networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2011 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0881-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2011.5971113

Filename

5971113