All-optical 160-Gb/s phase reconstructing wavelength conversion using cross-phase modulation (XPM) in dispersion-shifted fiber

Author

Rau, Lavanya ; Wang, Wei ; Camatel, Stefano ; Poulsen, Henrik ; Blumenthal, Daniel J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

16

Issue

11

fYear

2004

Firstpage

2520

Lastpage

2522

Abstract

Wavelength conversion using cross-phase modulation in dispersion-shifted fiber at 160 Gb/s is demonstrated. It is shown for the first time that the converter reconstructs the phase of the input signal, an important property for transmission of 160-Gb/s data. The bit-error rate of the converted channels is measured to be better than 10^-9 with a power penalty of <3 dB and in some cases negative compared to the original unconverted optical time-division-multiplexing signal across all 16×10-Gb/s channels.

Keywords

error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical information processing; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; phase modulation; telecommunication channels; 10 Gbit/s; 160 Gbit/s; all-optical phase reconstructing wavelength conversion; bit-error rate; converted channels; cross-phase modulation; dispersion-shifted fiber; optical time-division-multiplexing signal; power penalty; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase modulation; Repeaters; Wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.835187

Filename

1344087