DocumentCode
449286
Title
Experimental reduction of WDM signal crosstalk in fiber optical parametric amplifiers by using orthogonal pumps
Author
Wong, Kenneth K Y ; Lu, Guo-Wei ; Marhic, Michel E. ; Chen, Lian-Kuan
Author_Institution
Hong Kong Univ., China
Volume
3
fYear
2005
fDate
25-29 Sept. 2005
Firstpage
773
Abstract
We show that the signal quality degradation of WDM channels in a two-pump optical parametric amplifier (OPA) is dominated by the cross-gain modulation (XGM) and we demonstrated experimentally that it can be improved significantly by a two-orthogonal-pump OPA (2OP-OPA).
Keywords
optical communication equipment; optical crosstalk; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM channels; WDM signal crosstalk; a two-pump optical parametric amplifier; cross-gain modulation; fiber optical parametric amplifiers; two-orthogonal-pump;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location
IET
ISSN
0537-9989
Print_ISBN
0-86341-543-1
Type
conf
Filename
1576503
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