DPSK Signal Regeneration With a Dual-Pump Nondegenerate Phase-Sensitive Amplifier

Author

Frascella, Paola ; Sygletos, Stylianos ; Gunning, Fatima C Garcia ; Weerasuriya, Ruwan ; Grüner-Nielsen, Lars ; Phelan, Richard ; O´Gorman, James ; Ellis, Andrew D.

Author_Institution

Tyndall Nat. Inst., Photonic Syst. Group, Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland

Volume

23

Issue

8

fYear

2011

fDate

4/15/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

516

Lastpage

518

Abstract

We demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, regeneration of a 42.66-Gb/s differential phase-shift keyed signal using a dual-pump nondegenerate four-wave-mixing-based fiber-optic parametric amplifier. The regenerative performance of the subsystem is characterized in terms of bit-error rate against narrowband and wideband introduced noise. While a strong receiver sensitivity improvement, up to 20 dB, is noticed against narrowband noise, against quasi-random (wideband) noise we observe a regeneration of 2.7 dB.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; error statistics; multiwave mixing; optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical receivers; optical repeaters; random noise; DPSK; bit rate 42.66 Gbit/s; bit-error rate; differential phase-shift keyed signal; dual-pump nondegenerate four-wave-mixing-based fiber-optic parametric amplifier; narrowband noise; quasirandom noise; receiver sensitivity; regenerative performance; wideband noise; Degradation; Differential phase shift keying; Optical fiber amplifiers; Phase noise; Receivers; Sensitivity; Differential phase-shift keying (DPSK); optical parametric amplification; phase-sensitive amplification (PSA);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2113330

Filename

5711639