• DocumentCode
    2788526
  • Title

    Supercontinuum based optical thresholder assisted all-optical modulation format conversion from RZ-DQPSK to RZ-OOK

  • Author

    Dai, Bo ; Shimizu, Satoshi ; Wang, Xu ; Wada, Naoya

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng. & Phys. Sci., Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    2-5 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    We propose and demonstrate an all-optical modulation format conversion from RZ-DQPSK to RZ-OOK. We apply a supercontinuum based optical thresholder for the improvement of signal quality and allocation of two channels of DQPSK data in the two wavelengths. In the demonstration, we achieve error-free modulation format conversion after 50 km transmission at 10 Gbaud. 20 Gbit/s DQPSK data is split into two 10 Gbit/s OOK data in the two different wavelengths.
  • Keywords
    amplitude shift keying; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; RZ-DQPSK; RZ-OOK; all-optical modulation format conversion; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 20 Gbit/s; signal allocation; signal quality; supercontinuum based optical thresholder; Integrated optics; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Optical communication; modulation; nonlinear optical signal processing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Coventry
  • ISSN
    2161-2056
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2228-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2161-2056
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253800
  • Filename
    6253800