Title : 
Wavelength conversion of 4× 112Gbit/s PD-RZ-QPSK signals based on single pump polarization diversity FWM scheme
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
NEC Labs. America, Princeton, NJ, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We report wavelength conversion of 4times112 Gb/s PD-RZ-QPSK signals based on single pump polarization diversity scheme and digital coherent detection. The OSNR penalty after wavelength conversion is smaller than 1 dB.
         
        
            Keywords : 
optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; quadrature phase shift keying; FWM; OSNR; PD-RZ-QPSK signals; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; bit rate 448 Gbit/s; coherent detection; four wave mixing; polarization diversity; wavelength conversion; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Intensity modulation; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase modulation; WDM networks; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength division multiplexing;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Vienna
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-5096-1