Title :
Raman gain enhanced FWM 160 Gb/s OTDM demultiplexer with highly-nonlinear-fiber
Author :
Wang, Wei ; Rau, Lavanya ; Poulsen, Henrik N. ; Blumenthal, Daniel J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
Error free demultiplexing of 160 Gbps data to 10 Gbps was demonstrated with less than 2 dB power penalty using Raman gain enhanced four-wave-mixing in highly-nonlinear-fiber. A 19 dB efficiency increase over FWM without Raman was achieved by using 400 mW of Raman pump power.
Keywords :
demultiplexing equipment; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; time division multiplexing; 160 Gbit/s; 400 mW; FWM; OTDM demultiplexer; Raman gain; Raman pump power; four-wave-mixing; highly-nonlinear-fiber; power penalty;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-772-5
