• DocumentCode
    608371
  • Title

    100GHz grid-aligned reconfigurable polarization insensitive black-box wavelength converter

  • Author

    Rancano, V.J.F. ; Parmigiani, F. ; Petropoulos, P. ; Richardson, D.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    17-21 March 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    A new scheme for a flexible modulation-, bit rate- independent, reconfigurable and polarization insensitive wavelength converter based on FWM in a highly nonlinear fiber is demonstrated and characterized with 10Gbaud 16 QAM signals.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre networks; optical modulation; polarisation; quadrature amplitude modulation; 10Gbaud 16 QAM signals; FWM; bit rate-independent reconfigurable wavelength; flexible modulation; frequency 100 GHz; grid-aligned reconfigurable polarization; insensitive black-box wavelength converter; nonlinear fiber; polarization insensitive wavelength converter; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bandwidth; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Filtering; Gain; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical wavelength conversion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0457-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6532511