DPSK signal extinction ratio enhancement using four-wave mixing in a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber

Author

Fok, Mable P. ; Shu, Chester

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate an all-optical scheme for extinction ratio enhancement of a 10 Gb/s DPSK signal using four-wave mixing in a dispersion-flattened, highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber. The extinction ratio is increased by over 7.8 dB.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; photonic crystals; DPSK signal extinction ratio enhancement; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fiber; four wave mixing; highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Extinction ratio; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Interference; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Phase modulation; Photonic crystal fibers; (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (060.5060) Phase modulation; (070.4340) Nonlinear optical signal processing; (190.4380) Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing; (250.7360) Waveguide modulators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628522

Filename

4628522