Title :
All-Optical Amplitude Noise Reduction for DPSK Signal UsingPump-Modulated Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier
Author :
Fok, Mable P. ; Shu, Chester
Author_Institution :
Department of Electronic Engineering and Center for Advanced Research in Photonics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N. T., Hong Kong., E-mail: mpfok@ee.cuhk.edu.hk
Abstract :
Using the nonlinear transfer function of pump-modulated four-wave mixing in a SOA, amplitude noise reduction for NRZ-DPSK signal is demonstrated. The 10 Gb/s BER measurement shows a power penalty improvement of 7 dB.
Keywords :
Bit error rate; Degradation; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Four-wave mixing; Noise level; Noise reduction; Optical noise; Repeaters; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, France
Print_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801265
