Title :
Polarization insensitive arbitrary wavelength conversion in entire C-band using a PM-HNLF
Author :
Takasaka, Shigehiro ; Takahashi, Masanori ; Mimura, Yu ; Tadakuma, Masateru ; Sugizaki, Ryuichi ; Yagi, Takeshi
Author_Institution :
FITEL photonics Lab., Furukawa Electr. Co., Ltd., Chiba, Japan
Abstract :
Polarization insensitive pump-wavelength-tunable FWM in a zero dispersion and dispersion slope PM-HNLF was demonstrated. Polarization scrambled 10Gbit/s NRZ and DPSK signals in entire C-band were converted into entire C-band with power penalties less than 0.3dB and 0.5dB, respectively.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical pumping; optical tuning; optical wavelength conversion; C-band; DPSK signals; NRZ signals; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; highly nonlinear fibre; polarization insensitive arbitrary wavelength conversion; polarization-maintaining fibre; power penalties; pump-wavelength-tunable FWM; zero dispersion slope PM-HNLF; Band pass filters; Bit error rate; Dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621131
