Fiber four-wave mixing demultiplexing with inherent parametric amplification

被引:41
作者
Hedekvist, PO
Karlsson, M
Andrekson, PA
机构
[1] Dept. Optoelectronics Elec. M., Chalmers University of Technology
基金
瑞典研究理事会;
关键词
demultiplexing; optical fiber communication; optical mixing; optical parametric amplifiers; optical switches;
D O I
10.1109/50.641522
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We present an all-optical time-division demultiplexer with 22 dB conversion efficiency, using four-wave mixing (FWM) at 1550 nm in a single-mode dispersion-shifted fiber, Error-free demultiplexing of 20 Gb/s data to 10 Gb/s is obtained, with 1.4 dB power penalty at BER = 10(-9), We also derive theoretical expressions for the conversion efficiency, the maximum bit rate that is possible to demur and the shape of the switching window, In particular we emphasize the importance of phase-matching in order to achieve a flat switching window, Furthermore the pump must remain undepleted to avoid a detrimental reduction of the extinction ratio due to instantaneous parametric gain saturation.
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页码:2051 / 2058
页数:8
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