Title :
Multicasting of 50 Gb/s RZ-DPSK signals using self-seeded FWM with phase modulated pumps for SBS suppression
Author :
Yilmaz, O.F. ; Wang, J. ; Wang, X. ; Nuccio, S.R. ; Wu, X. ; Willner, A.E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. - Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, SC, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a method enabling the use of phase modulated pumps for 9-fold multicasting of 50 Gb/s RZ-DPSK signals. Phase modulation of the input signal along with the pumps allows for self-seeded multicasting with ~1.8 dB average power penalty.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; multicast communication; multiwave mixing; optical communication; optical modulation; phase modulation; RZ-DPSK signal multicasting; SBS suppression; bit rate 50 Gbit/s; phase modulated pump; phase modulation; self-seeded four-wave mixing scheme; self-seeded multicasting; Bit error rate; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Phase modulation; Radio frequency; Scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621551
