• DocumentCode
    2304566
  • 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
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    7-11 Nov. 2010
  • Firstpage
    453
  • Lastpage
    454
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
  • Conference_Location
    Denver, CO
  • ISSN
    -
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5368-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    -
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698955
  • Filename
    5698955
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2304566