Title : 
Suppression of Inter-channel Higher Order Four Wave Mixing in Four-Mode Phase-Sensitive Parametric Wavelength Multicasting
         
        
            Author : 
Lan Liu ; Wiberg, Andreas O. J. ; Myslivets, Evgeny ; Kuo, Bill P. P. ; Alic, Nikola ; Radic, Stojan
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Phase manipulation of four-mode phase-sensitive (4MPS) process was developed as a means for suppression of high-order four wave mixing (HoFWM) terms in dual-pump driven parametric wavelength multicasting and, consequently, for reduction of inter-channel crosstalk and inter-channel interference. In contrast to the previous studies that focused on power stabilization and conversion efficiency maximization, the investigation in this paper focuses on the evolution of the inter-channel HoFWM tones, whose suppression can be accomplished by arranging the phases of signals in a complementary manner. In addition, broadband 4MPS multicasting with suppressed HoFWM effects over 100-nm bandwidth, reaching up to 12-dB suppression ratio was demonstrated.
         
        
            Keywords : 
interference suppression; multiwave mixing; optical communication; optical crosstalk; optical pumping; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; dual-pump driven parametric wavelength multicasting; four-mode phase-sensitive parametric wavelength multicasting; interchannel crosstalk; interchannel higher order four wave mixing suppression; interchannel interference; phase manipulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Mixers; Multicast communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical pumping; Four-mode phase-sensitive process; four wave mixing; four-mode phase-sensitive process; inter-channel crosstalk; inter-channel interference; parametric mixer; wavelength multicasting;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/JLT.2015.2391187