Simulations of an OSNR-Limited All-Optical Wavelength Conversion Scheme

Author

Duill, Sean P. O. ; Naimi, Sepideh T. ; Anthur, Aravind P. ; Huynh, Tam N. ; Venkitesh, Deepa ; Barry, Liam P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Dublin City Univ., Dublin, Ireland

Volume

25

Issue

23

fYear

2013

fDate

Dec.1, 2013

Firstpage

2311

Lastpage

2314

Abstract

We present simulations of a scheme to perform wavelength conversion of signals that eliminates phase-noise transfer from the pump to the converted signal. Nondegenerate four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier is used to convert the signal to a new wavelength, and if an optical comb generator is used as the multiple-pump source, then the signal can be converted without incurring any phase-noise transfer from the pumps. We highlight the capabilities of this scheme by simulating the conversion of 16-QAM signals at 10 GBd and showing that errors due to phase-noise accumulation are eliminated, thus enabling conversion whose only impairment would be the total additive optical noise.

Keywords

laser noise; multiwave mixing; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; phase noise; quadrature amplitude modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 16-QAM signals; OSNR-limited all-optical wavelength conversion; multiple-pump source; nondegenerate four-wave mixing; optical comb generator; phase-noise accumulation; semiconductor optical amplifier; signal conversion; total additive optical noise; Optical noise; Optical packet switching; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; advanced modulation formats; packet-switched networks; wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2013.2285614

Filename

6632927