Title :
Polarization-insensitive wideband wavelength conversion for DSPK signal by dual-pump four-wave mixing in a photonic crystal fiber
Author :
Dai, Yongheng ; Shu, Chester
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
Abstract :
Nondegenerate four-wave mixing is used in high- nonlinearity photonic crystal fiber with residual birefringence to achieve polarization-insensitive wideband wavelength conversion. The output power variation is below 0.2 dB and the conversion bandwidth is over 22 nm.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; light polarisation; optical fibre networks; photonic crystals; DPSK signal; conversion bandwidth; differential phase shift keying signal; dual-pump four-wave mixing; nondegenerate four-wave mixing; photonic crystal fiber; polarization-insensitive wideband wavelength conversion; residual birefringence; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Four-wave mixing; Laser tuning; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical wavelength conversion; Photonic crystal fibers; Wideband;
Conference_Titel :
Summer Topical Meeting, 2009. LEOSST '09. IEEE/LEOS
Conference_Location :
Newport Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3913-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1099-4742
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2009.5226263
