Title :
All-optical sub-channel data erasing and updating for a 16-QAM signal using a single PPLN waveguide
Author :
Huang, Hao ; Yang, Jeng-Yuan ; Wu, Xiaoxia ; Khaleghi, Salman ; Tur, Moshe ; Langrock, Carsten ; Fejer, Martin M. ; Willner, Alan E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate all-optical sub-channel data erasing/updating based on cascaded sum-and difference-frequency generation in a single PPLN waveguide. OSNR penalty of 2-dB for RZ and 4-dB for NRZ at a BER of 2e-3 are achieved.
Keywords :
data communication; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical waveguides; quadrature amplitude modulation; 16-QAM signal; OSNR penalty; all-optical sub-channel data erasing; cascaded sum-and difference-frequency generation; data updating; single PPLN waveguide; Band pass filters; Bit error rate; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Phase shift keying; Quadrature amplitude modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
