Title :
Experimental demonstration of a low-noise-figure phase-insensitive parametric amplifier
Author :
Moro, Slaven ; Peric, Ana ; Alic, Nikola ; McKinstrie, C.J. ; Radic, Stojan
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate superior performance of a two-pump amplifier with respect to the state of the art EDFA in a low-input-power regime for the first time. A parametric amplifier with 50dB gain outperforms the EDFA by 1.5dB at FEC threshold level for a 10.7-Gb/s DPSK format.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; DPSK; EDFA; JkJk:Er; bit rate 10.7 Gbit/s; low input power regime; low-noise-figure phase-insensitive parametric amplifier; two-pump amplifier;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5368-9
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698955
