• DocumentCode
    3117705
  • Title

    All-optical gain-clamping in Fibre optical parametric amplifiers

  • Author

    Gryspolakis, Nikolaos ; Chen, Lawrence R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    13-17 July 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate the feasibility of all-optical gain-clamping in a fibre optical parametric amplifier. We investigate the impact of gain-clamping on BER performance when using NRZ and RZ-DPSK modulation formats.
  • Keywords
    differential phase shift keying; error statistics; optical parametric amplifiers; BER performance; NRZ modulation formats; RZ-DPSK modulation formats; all optical gain clamping; fibre optical parametric amplifiers; Band pass filters; Doped fiber amplifiers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical pumping; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2009. OECC 2009. 14th
  • Conference_Location
    Hong Kong
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4102-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4103-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2009.5215882
  • Filename
    5215882
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3117705