Impact of Nonlinear Phase Noise on All-Optical Wavelength Conversion of 10.7-GBaud QPSK Data Using Dual Correlated Pumps

Author

Anthur, Aravind P. ; Watts, Regan T. ; O´Duill, Sean ; Rui Zhou ; Venkitesh, Deepa ; Barry, Liam P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., IIT Madras, Chennai, India

Volume

51

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

Apr-15

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The impact of nonlinear phase noise on all-optical wavelength conversion using four-wave mixing and dual-correlated pumps is studied. It is shown that there are optical signal-to-noise ratio requirements on the dual-correlated pumps for penalty-free all-optical wavelength conversion. We also show that the nonlinear phase noise generated in the nonlinear medium is transferred to the idler because of the uncorrelated nature of the amplitude noise on the pump signals.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical noise; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; phase noise; quadrature phase shift keying; QPSK data; amplitude noise; dual-correlated pumps; four-wave mixing; idler; nonlinear medium; nonlinear phase noise; optical signal-to-noise ratio requirements; penalty-free all-optical wavelength conversion; pump signals; Frequency modulation; Optical noise; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio; Four-wave mixing; Four-wave mixing,; nonlinear phase noise; wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.2015.2393363

Filename

7012042