Title : 
PPLN-based low-noise in-line phase sensitive amplifier with highly sensitive carrier-recovery system
         
        
            Author : 
Koji Enbutsu;Takeshi Umeki;Osamu Tadanaga;Hirokazu Takenouchi;Masaki Asobe
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
NTT Device Technology Laboratories, NTT Corporation Atsugi, Kanagawa Pref., Japan
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A PPLN-based in-line phase sensitive amplifier with a highly sensitive carrier-recovery system based on two-stage SHG/DFG parametric conversion achieves multi-stage amplification with a low noise figure of 3 dB and a 20-dB gain.
         
        
            Keywords : 
"Noise measurement","Optical fiber amplifiers","Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers","Gain","Noise level","Signal to noise ratio"
         
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Communications (APCC), 2015 21st Asia-Pacific Conference on
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/APCC.2015.7412591