Title :
Characterization of a fiber-optical parametric amplifier in a 5 × 28-GBd 16-QAM DWDM system
Author :
Sackey, I. ; Elschner, Robert ; Nolle, M. ; Richter, Thomas ; Molle, L. ; Meuer, C. ; Jazayerifar, M. ; Warm, S. ; Petermann, K. ; Schubert, Colja
Author_Institution :
Fachgebiet Hochfrequenztech., Tech. Univ. Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
The performance of a FOPA as inline-amplifier for 28-GBd 16-QAM signals at 20-dB gain in a 50-GHz 5-channel DWDM system is experimentally investigated. Less than 0.7-dB OSNR penalty at a BER of 1×10-3 was measured with 0-dBm per-channel output power.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical parametric amplifiers; quadrature amplitude modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 16-QAM DWDM system; 16-QAM signals; 5-channel DWDM sγstem; BER; OSNR penalty; fiber-optical parametric amplifier; frequency 50 GHz; inline-amplifier; Gain; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical noise; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Signal to noise ratio; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.W3E.3
