DPSK wavelength multicasting using FWM with three unequally-spaced pumps in a bismuth-oxide highly-nonlinear fiber

Author

Lu, Guo-Wei ; Abedin, Kazi Sarwar ; Miyazaki, Tetsuya

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Tokyo

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a compact 1-to-5 DPSK wavelength multicasting scheme using FWM with three unequally-spaced pumps in a 2-m-long Bi-HNLF. Power penalties are within 1.9-dB for all the converted signals.

Keywords

bismuth compounds; differential phase shift keying; multicast communication; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical wavelength conversion; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; BiO; DPSK wavelength multicasting; FWM; HNLF; WDM; bismuth-oxide highly-nonlinear fiber; power penalty; size 2 m; unequally-spaced pumps; wavelength conversion; wavelength-division multiplexing channels; Brillouin scattering; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical pumping; Optical receivers; Tunable circuits and devices; (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (060.5060) Phase modulation; (190.2620) Frequency conversion; (190.4380) Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4572503