Title :
All-Optical Regeneration Based on Phase-Sensitive Nondegenerate Four-Wave Mixing in Optical Fibers
Author :
Fragkos, Alexandros ; Bogris, Adonis ; Syvridis, Dimitris
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Telecommun., Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece
Abstract :
An optical regeneration scheme based on nondegenerate phase-sensitive amplification in highly nonlinear fibers is numerically investigated. The proposed regenerator exhibits significant amplitude and phase noise suppression properties and eliminates the need for precise phase and frequency locking with the input return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying signal.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; multiwave mixing; optical fibre amplifiers; optical repeaters; all-optical regeneration; amplitude noise suppression; differential phase-shift keying signal; four-wave mixing; frequency locking; nondegenerate phase-sensitive amplification; nonlinear fibers; optical fibers; phase locking; phase noise suppression; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical signal processing; Phase modulation; Phase noise; Repeaters; Phase modulation; phase-sensitive amplification; return-to-zero to nonreturn-to-zero (RZ-to-NRZ) optical conversion;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2010.2089442
