Title :
Experimental reduction of WDM signal crosstalk in fiber optical parametric amplifiers by using orthogonal pumps
Author :
Wong, Kenneth K Y ; Lu, Guo-Wei ; Marhic, Michel E. ; Chen, Lian-Kuan
Author_Institution :
Hong Kong Univ., China
Abstract :
We show that the signal quality degradation of WDM channels in a two-pump optical parametric amplifier (OPA) is dominated by the cross-gain modulation (XGM) and we demonstrated experimentally that it can be improved significantly by a two-orthogonal-pump OPA (2OP-OPA).
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; optical crosstalk; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM channels; WDM signal crosstalk; a two-pump optical parametric amplifier; cross-gain modulation; fiber optical parametric amplifiers; two-orthogonal-pump;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
