Title :
Highly cascadable all-optical wavelength conversions of DP-QPSK, DP-16QAM, and DP-64QAM signals
Author :
Hung Nguyen Tan;Takashi Inoue;Shu Namiki
Author_Institution :
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8568, Japan
Abstract :
We present for the first time 14, 10, 4 cascaded wavelength conversions of 48Gbit/s DP-QPSK, 96Gbit/s DP-16QAM, 144Gbit/s DP-64QAM, respectively. The high cascadability is due to high conversion efficiency achieved by a counter-dithering scheme with small impact of residual dithering.
Keywords :
"Optical wavelength conversion","Optical noise","Modulation","Signal to noise ratio","Optical fiber networks","Q-factor","Noise measurement"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341990
