DocumentCode
562029
Title
Noise performance of an eight-sideband parametric mixer
Author
Tong, Zhi ; Wiberg, Andreas O J ; Alic, Nikola ; Radic, Stojan
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
fYear
2012
fDate
4-8 March 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
Noise performance of an eight-sideband mixer seeded by two continuous-wave pumps was measured and compared with two- and four-sideband parametric devices. We show that the noise-figure of a free-running mixer grows with increasing sideband number.
Keywords
optical communication equipment; optical noise; continuous wave pump; eight sideband parametric mixer; free-running mixer; noise performance; Amplitude modulation; Mixers; Noise measurement; Optical attenuators; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location
Los Angeles, CA
ISSN
pending
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-0262-3
Type
conf
Filename
6192001
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