Title :
Multichannel wavelength multicasting for QAM signals free of pump-phase-noise using flexible coherent multi-carrier pump
Author :
Guo-Wei Lu ; Sakamoto, Takahide ; Kawanishi, Tetsuya
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We propose and demonstrate pump-phase-noise-free 2-to-7 multichannel wavelength multicasting for QAM signals using flexible coherent multi-carrier pump. <;0.4dB penalty is obtained after multicasting with the proposed scheme even using 3-MHz-linewidth DFB laser as pump source.
Keywords :
distributed feedback lasers; multicast communication; optical fibre networks; optical pumping; quadrature amplitude modulation; telecommunication channels; DFB laser; QAM signals; bandwidth 3 MHz; distributed feedback laser; flexible coherent multi-carrier pump; penalty; pump-phase-noise-free multichannel wavelength multicasting; quadrature amplitude modulation; Information and communication technology; Optical pumping;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
