Phase-transparent optical data exchange of 40-Gbit/s DPSK signals using four-wave-mixing in a highly nonlinear fiber

Author

Wang, Jian ; Bakhtiari, Zahra ; Xiao-Li, Yinying ; Nuccio, Scott ; Yilmaz, Omer F. ; Wu, Xiaoxia ; Yang, Jeng-Yuan ; Yue, Yang ; Fazal, Irfan ; Hellwarth, Robert W. ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report the phase-transparent optical data exchange based on non-degenerate FWM in an HNLF via theoretical analysis and experimental verification. 40-Gbit/s NRZ-DPSK data exchange is demonstrated with a power penalty (at 10^-9) ~ 4.5 dB.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; differential phase shift keying; four-wave-mixing; highly nonlinear fiber; phase-transparent optical data exchange; power penalty; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency conversion; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase shift keying;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-884-1

Type

conf

Filename

5465356