• DocumentCode
    600612
  • Title

    RF photonic link employing optical phase sensitive amplification

  • Author

    Agarwal, Abhishek ; Banwell, T. ; Woodward, T.K.

  • Author_Institution
    Telcordia Technol., Red Bank, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4-8 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We present operation of an optical phase-sensitive amplifier (OPSA) in a RF-photonic link for improved link performance. Enhancement of 3.5dB in OIP3 and 2.5dB.Hz2/3 in SFDR at net OPSA gain of 5dB is observed.
  • Keywords
    microwave photonics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical links; OIP3; RF photonic link; SFDR; net OPSA gain; optical phase sensitive amplification; Gain; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Radio frequency;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0262-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6476436