High bitrate operation of a novel optical phase conjugator using inline fibre DFB lasers

Author

Set, S.Y. ; Yamashita, S. ; Ibsen, M. ; Laming, R.I. ; Nesset, D. ; Kelly, A.E. ; Gilbertas, C.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

20-24 Sep 1998

Firstpage

183

Abstract

We report the first demonstration of high bitrate, polarisation insensitive optical phase conjugation and wavelength conversion using orthogonally polarised fibre distributed feedback lasers as four-wave mixing pumps in both dispersion shifted fibre and semiconductor optical amplifier. We report the use of a novel optical phase conjugator configuration in 20/40 Gbit/s WDM network system experiments. The conjugator uses inline fibre distributed feedback (DFB) lasers as pumps and polarisation independent operation is achieved by aligning the polarisations orthogonally

Keywords

distributed feedback lasers; fibre lasers; multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; optical frequency conversion; optical phase conjugation; optical pumping; sensitivity; wavelength division multiplexing; Gbit/s WDM network system experiments; dispersion shifted fibre; four-wave mixing pumps; high bitrate operation; high bitrate polarisation insensitive optical phase conjugation; inline fibre DFB lasers; inline fibre distributed feedback lasers; optical phase conjugator; optical phase conjugator configuration; orthogonal polarisation alignment; orthogonally polarised fibre distributed feedback lasers; polarisation independent operation; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength conversion; Bit rate; Distributed feedback devices; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical fiber polarization; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

84-89900-14-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.1998.732493

Filename

732493