Nonlinear crosstalk between OTDM-OOK and DPSK signals in four-wave mixing wavelength conversion

Author

Xuelei Fu ; Lei, Gordon K. P. ; Xiaojie Guo ; Tsang, H.K. ; Shu, Chester

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

fYear

2012

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We investigate the nonlinear crosstalk between a 10-Gb/s differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) signal and a 160-Gb/s optical time division multiplexing on-off keying (OTDM-OOK) signal in four-wave mixing (FWM) based wavelength conversion. Experimental results show that wavelength conversion of the DPSK signal is strongly susceptible to cross-phase modulation (XPM) caused by the OTDM-OOK signal. Error-free operation is achieved by keeping the OTDM-OOK signal orthogonally polarized to the DPSK signal and the pump and thus minimize the XPM. The influence of the DPSK signal on the wavelength conversion of the OTDM-OOK signal is negligible.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; differential phase shift keying; multiwave mixing; optical wavelength conversion; time division multiplexing; DPSK; OTDM-OOK; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; cross-phase modulation; differential phase shift keying; four-wave mixing; nonlinear crosstalk; optical time division multiplexing on-off keying; wavelength conversion; Crosstalk; Differential phase shift keying; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical wavelength conversion; cross-phase modulation (XPM); differential phase-shift keying (DPSK); four-wave mixing (FWM); nonlinear crosstalk; optical time division multiplexing (OTDM);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching (PS), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ajaccio

Type

conf

Filename

6608237