Title :
The impact of pump phase-modulation and filtering on WDM signals in a fibre optical parametric amplifier
Author :
Stephens, M.F.C. ; Redyuk, A. ; Sygletos, S. ; Phillips, I.D. ; Harper, P. ; Blow, K.J. ; Doran, N.J.
Author_Institution :
Aston Inst. of Photonic Technol., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK
Abstract :
WDM signal degradation from pump phase-modulation in a one-pump 20dB net-gain fibre optical parametric amplifier is experimentally and numerically characterised for the first time using 10×59Gb/s QPSK signals.
Keywords :
filters; optical fibre amplifiers; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; QPSK; WDM signal degradation; bit rate 59 Gbit/s; fibre optical parametric amplifier; filtering; gain 20 dB; pump phase-modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; Bandwidth; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical pumping;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
