Title :
Experimental investigation of wide bandwidth single and dual pump non-degenerate phase sensitive amplifiers
Author :
Kakande, Joseph ; Parmigiani, Francesca ; Ibsen, Morten ; Petropoulos, Periklis ; Richardson, David J.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
We demonstrate non-degenerate phase sensitive amplification of a DPSK data signal in both single and double pumped parametric configurations, achieving uniform phase sensitive gain and attenuation over the 20 nm assessed bandwidth.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; optical fibre amplifiers; optical signal detection; DPSK data signal; nondegenerate phase sensitive amplification; uniform phase sensitive gain; wide bandwidth dual pump non-degenerate phase sensitive amplifiers; wide bandwidth single pump non-degenerate phase sensitive amplifiers; Bandwidth; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser excitation; Optical amplifiers; Optical coupling; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pumping; Pump lasers; Signal processing; Stimulated emission;
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
