Title :
Phase-incoherent DPSK regeneration using a fiber-sagnac interferometer
Author :
Kouloumentas, Ch ; Bougioukos, M. ; Maziotis, A. ; Avramopoulos, H.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate for the first time phase-incoherent regeneration of DPSK signals based on fiber-Sagnac interferometer. Power penalty improvement of phase-, amplitude- and ASE-noise loaded signals up to 3 dB is reported at 40 Gb/s.
Keywords :
Sagnac interferometers; differential phase shift keying; optical fibre networks; 1-bit delay interferometer; bit error rate; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; nonlinear fiber Sagnac interferometer; optical signal-to-noise ratio; phase-incoherent DPSK signal regeneration; power penalty; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Optical signal processing; Pulse modulation; Repeaters; Sagnac interferometers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
