• DocumentCode
    161660
  • Title

    Parametric amplification and wavelength conversion of a 2.048-Tbit/s WDM PDM 16-QAM signal

  • Author

    Hu, Haibo ; Jopson, R.M. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Dinu, M. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Liu, Xindong ; Xie, Chao ; Montoliu, M. ; Randel, S. ; McKinstrie, C.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate polarisation-insensitive parametric amplification in highly nonlinear fibre of a 2.048-Tbit/s dense WDM PDM 16-QAM signal with ~10 dB on-off gain and simultaneous wavelength conversion and phase conjugation, with mean Q2 penalties of only 0.6 dB and 0.4 dB.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibres; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; dense WDM PDM 16-QAM signal; fibre-optic parametric amplifiers; nonlinear fibre; on-off gain; phase conjugation; polarisation-division-multiplexed quadrature amplitude modulation; polarisation-insensitive parametric amplification; simultaneous wavelength conversion; wavelength-division-multiplexed systems; Gain; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical wavelength conversion; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964196
  • Filename
    6964196