A Novel Four-Wave Mixing Compensator

Author

Huh, J.Y. ; Jun, S.B. ; Lee, J.H. ; Chung, Y.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon

Volume

19

Issue

1

fYear

2007

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

38

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a novel four-wave-mixing (FWM) compensator made of a highly nonlinear fiber and a pump laser. This technique utilizes the additional pi/2 phase delay occurring in every FWM process. Thus, the FWM components generated in the transmission fiber can be cancelled out by the FWM components generated within the FWM compensator. We have experimentally confirmed that the proposed technique could effectively suppress the FWM crosstalk generated in the transmission fiber and improve the system´s performance

Keywords

compensation; multiwave mixing; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; optical pumping; crosstalk; four-wave mixing compensator; highly nonlinear fiber; pump laser; Added delay; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Laser excitation; Optical crosstalk; Optical fibers; Optical pumping; Optical receivers; Pump lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing; Compensation; four-wave mixing (FWM); highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.888994

Filename

4039381