Title :
Enhancing the phase sensitivity of phase sensitive amplifiers for efficient phase regeneration
Author :
Gao, Mingyi ; Inoue, Takashi ; Kurosu, Takayuki ; Namiki, Shu
Author_Institution :
Network Photonics Res. Center, Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol. (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
We have clarified a mechanism that sidebands entailed by phase sensitive amplification significantly increase gain extinction ratio, by scrutinizing the trajectories of the output signal vector in the complex plane with increasing nonlinear phase shift.
Keywords :
optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; gain extinction ratio; nonlinear phase shift; phase regeneration; phase sensitive amplifiers; phase sensitivity; Amplitude modulation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Sensitivity; Trajectory; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
