Title :
Homodyne operation of a phase-only optical amplifier
Author :
Kakande, J. ; Parmigiani, F. ; Slavik, R. ; Petropoulos, P. ; Richardson, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
We utilise cascaded four wave mixing to multiply the modulation depth of a phase-only optical signal and generate a comb of phase locked local oscillators allowing homodyne retrieval of the phase information with enhanced fidelity.
Keywords :
amplifiers; homodyne detection; multiwave mixing; optical information processing; optical modulation; phase locked oscillators; cascaded four wave mixing; comb generation; fidelity; homodyne operation; homodyne retrieval; modulation depth; phase locked local oscillators; phase-only optical amplifier; Harmonic analysis; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Optical pumping;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
