Title :
Experimental demonstration of wavelength conversions of optical 36QAM and 64QAM through FWM in HNLF
Author :
Guo-Wei Lu ; Sakamoto, Takanori ; Kawanishi, Tetsuyas
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate wavelength conversions of 50-Gbps 36QAM and 60-Gbps 64QAM through four-wave mixing in highly-nonlinear fiber. Error free operations are successfully achieved for converted high-order QAMs with negligible power penalty at BER of 10-3.
Keywords :
error statistics; multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; quadrature amplitude modulation; 36QAM; 64QAM; BER; FWM; HNLF; bit rate 50 Gbit/s; bit rate 60 Gbit/s; four-wave mixing; highly-nonlinear fiber; power penalty; wavelength conversions; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Quadrature amplitude modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bellevue, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1506-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656476
