• DocumentCode
    3074663
  • Title

    Signal-signal crosstalk measurements in a PPLN-PPLN PSA with narrow channel spacing

  • Author

    Puttnam, B.J. ; Szabo, Aron ; Mazroa, D. ; Shinada, S. ; Wada, N.

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Comms. Tech. (NICT), Koganei, Japan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    2-6 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    67
  • Lastpage
    68
  • Abstract
    We investigate inter-channel interference as a function of channel-spacing for PSAs constructed from PPLN waveguides. We use 9*50GHz spaced input channels and show that the second order non-linearity can be advantageous for multi-channel PSA applications.
  • Keywords
    adjacent channel interference; channel spacing; lithium compounds; nonlinear optical susceptibility; optical communication equipment; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical waveguides; phase shift keying; BPSK; LiNbO3; PPLN waveguides; PPLN-PPLN PSA; frequency 450 GHz; frequency 50 GHz; interchannel interference; narrow channel spacing; phase-sensitive amplifiers; second order nonlinearity; signal-signal crosstalk measurements; Channel spacing; Crosstalk; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical wavelength conversion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
  • Conference_Location
    Busan
  • ISSN
    2166-8884
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0976-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2166-8884
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2012.6276374
  • Filename
    6276374