Title :
Cancellation of Second-Order Distortion in an Analog Link by a Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifier
Author :
Wong, Kenneth K Y ; Marhic, Michel E. ; Kazovsky, Leonid G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., CA
Abstract :
We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that gain saturation in a fiber optical parametric amplifier (OPA) can be used to efficiently cancel the second-order distortion generated in an analog fiber link by SPM and GVD. We demonstrated reduction of CSO distortion by 12 dB
Keywords :
optical distortion; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical parametric amplifiers; optical receivers; optical saturation; self-phase modulation; analog fiber link; analog link; fiber optical amplifier; gain saturation; group-velocity dispersion; optical parametric amplifier; optical receiver; second-order distortion; self-phase modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
87-90974-63-8
