• DocumentCode
    3691985
  • Title

    Wavelength conversion of PDM 16-QAM signals by four wave mixing with a co-phase dithered pump

  • Author

    Mark Pelusi;Karen Solis-Trapala;Hung Nguyen Tan;Takashi Inoue;Shu Namiki

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), IPOS, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    40
  • Lastpage
    42
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate broadband wavelength conversion of a 256 Gb/s PDM 16-QAM signal using degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) pumped by a single CW laser. By co-phase dithering both pump and signal, the FWM conversion efficiency is enhanced by 12.2 dB to ~48%, while suppressing most dither transfer to the idler, enabling the demodulation of the signal with a bit error rate well below the 4.5×10-3 threshold limit for forward error correction with 7% overhead, and with an OSNR penalty of 1.2 dB compared to the back-to-back reference.
  • Keywords
    "Optical wavelength conversion","Laser excitation","Phase modulation","Optical noise","Radio frequency","Signal to noise ratio"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics in Switching (PS), 2015 International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PS.2015.7328946
  • Filename
    7328946
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3691985