Optical subcarrier labeling transparent to the payload format using carrier suppression technique

Author

Chi, Nan ; Yu, Siyuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Bristol, UK

Volume

18

Issue

8

fYear

2006

fDate

4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

971

Lastpage

973

Abstract

In this letter, we propose an optical subcarrier labeling technique that guarantees the transparency to the payload modulation format based on carrier suppression of the payload. We experimentally demonstrate transparent wavelength conversion based on four-wave mixing in a highly nonlinear fiber and subcarrier label insertion for a 10-Gb/s differential phase-shift keying payload and a 155-Mb/s amplitude shift keying subcarrier label with an overall penalty of 1.8 dB for the payload and 1.7 dB for the label.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; differential phase shift keying; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; packet switching; 10 Gbit/s; 155 Mbit/s; amplitude shift keying; carrier suppression; differential phase-shift keying; four-wave mixing; highly nonlinear fiber; optical subcarrier labeling; payload modulation format; wavelength conversion; Amplitude shift keying; Differential phase shift keying; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Labeling; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical wavelength conversion; Payloads; Carrier suppression; differential phase-shift keying (DPSK); optical label swapping; optical subcarrier labeling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.873558

Filename

1613987