Title :
All-optical tunable multilevel amplitude regeneration based on coherent polarization mixing
Author :
Bakhtiari, Zahra ; Sawchuk, Alexander A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We propose an all-optical phase-preserving scheme for multilevel amplitude regeneration based on coherent polarization mixing for optical star-8QAM/star-16QAM signals with a power ratio of 1:5. A regeneration factor of 4.9 for star 8-QAM is achieved.
Keywords :
light coherence; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical tuning; quadrature amplitude modulation; all-optical phase-preserving scheme; all-optical tunable multilevel amplitude regeneration; coherent polarization mixing; optical star-8QAM-star16QAM signals; power ratio; regeneration factor; Constellation diagram; Noise measurement; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Phase noise; Repeaters; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
