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
         
        
        
        
        
        
            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;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Cannes
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964196