Field-trial demonstration of a one-pump fiber optics parametric amplifier with independent polarization gain

Author

Fugihara, M.C. ; Marconi, J.D. ; Callegari, F.A. ; Fragnito, H.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Eletron., Univ. Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

Oct. 29 2011-Nov. 1 2011

Firstpage

847

Lastpage

851

Abstract

We present a field-trial evaluation of an in-line fiber optical parametric amplifier (FOPA) without polarization dependent gain (PDG). This parametric amplifier uses a polarization diversity technique (PDT) to reduce the PDG to less than 0.05 dB. We analyzed the performance of a system with an in-line FOPA comparing the results of its bit-error-rate (BER) with the BER of a system with an in-line Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). FOPA presented a power penalty that was 0.7dB higher than the one obtained with the EDFA, showing that the PDG was effectively suppressed with the PDT.

Keywords

erbium; error statistics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre polarisation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; BER; EDFA; bit-error-rate; field-trial demonstration; in-line erbium doped fiber amplifier; independent polarization gain; one-pump fiber optics parametric amplifier; polarization dependent gain; polarization diversity technique; power penalty; Bit error rate; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; FOPA; PDG; optical amplifier; polarization diversity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave & Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), 2011 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Natal

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2011.6169252

Filename

6169252