DocumentCode
515646
Title
Phase-incoherent DPSK regeneration using a fiber-sagnac interferometer
Author
Kouloumentas, Ch ; Bougioukos, M. ; Maziotis, A. ; Avramopoulos, H.
Author_Institution
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece
fYear
2010
fDate
21-25 March 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate for the first time phase-incoherent regeneration of DPSK signals based on fiber-Sagnac interferometer. Power penalty improvement of phase-, amplitude- and ASE-noise loaded signals up to 3 dB is reported at 40 Gb/s.
Keywords
Sagnac interferometers; differential phase shift keying; optical fibre networks; 1-bit delay interferometer; bit error rate; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; nonlinear fiber Sagnac interferometer; optical signal-to-noise ratio; phase-incoherent DPSK signal regeneration; power penalty; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Optical signal processing; Pulse modulation; Repeaters; Sagnac interferometers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-55752-884-1
Type
conf
Filename
5465355
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