• DocumentCode
    712702
  • Title

    FWM-based, idler-free phase quantiser with flexible operating power

  • Author

    Bottrill, K.R.H. ; Jones, L. ; Parmigiani, F. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Petropoulos, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Coherently adding a signal´s conjugate and third harmonic at the latter´s wavelength enables phase quantisation across a large operating power range. With broadband phase noise, a 5.6dB QPSK receiver sensitivity improvement is achieved with BER= 10-4.
  • Keywords
    error statistics; optical harmonic generation; optical information processing; optical phase conjugation; optical receivers; phase noise; quadrature phase shift keying; BER; FWM; QPSK receiver sensitivity; broadband phase noise; error statistics; flexible operating power; idler-free phase quantiser; phase conjugate; phase quantisation; quadrature phase shift keying; third harmonic; Bit error rate; Harmonic analysis; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Phase shift keying; Photonics; Repeaters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7122089