Title :
Coherently-pumped FWM in HNLF for 16QAM wavelength conversion free of phase noise from pumps
Author :
Guo-Wei Lu ; Sakamoto, Takanori ; Kawanishi, Tetsuyas
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate a 50-Gbps 16QAM wavelength conversion with <;0.2dB penalty, based on FWM in HNLF using coherent pumps. The coherent pumping makes it independent of the phase noise from pumps and enables the use of cost-effective pump laser.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; phase noise; quadrature amplitude modulation; HNLF; QAM wavelength conversion; bit rate 50 Gbit/s; coherently pumped FWM; cost-effective pump laser; four-wave mixing; highly-nonlinear fiber; phase noise; quadrature amplitude modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase noise; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964154
