• DocumentCode
    1581647
  • Title

    All-optical generation of quaternary amplitude-shift keying signals through parametric amplification

  • Author

    Abbade, M.L.F. ; Marconi, J.D. ; Costa, A.L.A. ; Barbosa, F.R. ; Moschim, E. ; Fragnito, H.L.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. Eng., PUC-Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    In this work we present experimental results concerning a new technique that uses parametric amplification to merge two binary signals into a single quaternary amplitude-shift keying (4-ASK) signal. We also propagate such quaternary signal through a 75-km long standard fibre link; the measured eye-opening penalty was lower than 1 dB.
  • Keywords
    amplitude shift keying; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; 4-ASK signal; all-optical generation; binary signals; eye-opening penalty; parametric amplification; quaternary amplitude-shift keying signals; standard fibre link; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical signal processing; Performance analysis; Probes; Signal generators; Signal processing; Stimulated emission; Optical signal processing; optical packets; parametric amplification; quaternary amplitude-shift keying signal;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2010 12th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7799-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7797-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTON.2010.5549110
  • Filename
    5549110