Impact of Pump Phase-Modulation on the Bit-Error Rate in Fiber-Optical Parametric-Amplifier-Based Systems

Author

Kylemark, Per ; Ren, Jian ; Myslivets, Yauheni ; Alic, Nikola ; Radic, Stojan ; Andrekson, Peter A. ; Karlsson, Magnus

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microtechnol. & Nanosci., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg

Volume

19

Issue

2

fYear

2007

Firstpage

79

Lastpage

81

Abstract

Pump phase-modulation is often needed to suppress stimulated Brillouin scattering in fiber-optical parametric amplifiers. We show that while this causes a gain variation with a corresponding Q-value penalty, the actual bit-error-rate degradation is not always significant. The findings are supported by experimental studies

Keywords

error statistics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; phase modulation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Q-value penalty; bit-error rate; fiber-optical parametric amplifier; gain variation; pump phase-modulation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Brillouin scattering; Degradation; Frequency; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Stimulated emission; Bit-error rate (BER); deterministic gain; fiber-optical parametric amplifier (FOPA); phase-modulation (PM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.889014

Filename

4039391