Title :
High-Speed All-Optical Generation of Advanced Modulation Formats Using Photonic-Integrated All-Optical Format Converter
Author :
Kang, Inuk ; Rasras, Mahmoud S. ; Buhl, Lawrence L. ; Dinu, Mihaela ; Raybon, Gregory ; Cabot, Steven ; Cappuzzo, Mark A. ; Gomez, L.T. ; Chen, Y.F. ; Patel, Sanjay S. ; Piccirilli, A. ; Jaques, James ; Giles, C. Randy
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We propose and demonstrate all-optical method for generating advanced modulation formats with high-spectral efficiency. The proposed method is based on all-optical format conversion using photonic-integrated semiconductor optical amplifier-Mach-Zehnder interferometers. It enables application of advanced modulation formats at data rates not directly accessible using electronic means only. We demonstrate generation of single-polarization 86.4-Gb/s binary phase-shift keying and 173-Gb/s quadrature phase-shift keying optical signals.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; advanced modulation formats; binary phase shift keying; bit rate 173 Gbit/s; bit rate 86.4 Gbit/s; high-spectral efficiency; high-speed all-optical generation; optical signals; photonic-integrated all-optical format converter; quadrature phase shift keying; semiconductor optical amplifier; single polarization; High speed optical techniques; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Phase shift keying; Coherent communication; differential phase-shift-keying (DPSK); optical format conversion; optical sampling; optical signal processing; phase-shift keying (PSK); photonic integration; quadratic-amplitude modulation (QAM); quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK); semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength conversion;
Journal_Title :
Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2129495
