Regenerative properties of a pump-modulated four-wave mixing scheme in dispersion-shifted fibers

被引:56
作者
Bogris, A [1 ]
Syvridis, D [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Athens, Dept Informat & Telecommun, Athens 15784, Greece
关键词
four-wave mixing (FWM); optical fibers; wavelength conversion;
D O I
10.1109/JLT.2003.814390
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
A new scheme for all-optical signal reshaping is proposed. It is shown that proper adjustment of the operating conditions of a wavelength converter based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in dispersion-shifted fiber (DSF) results in significant extinction ratio enhancement and noise suppression of the converted signal. The key issue in the proposed idea is the application of the modulation bitstream on the input pump wave. Detailed numerical simulation shows that it is possible to achieve a wavelength-converted output with extinction ratio of 20 dB when the extinction ratio of the input signal is 10.5 dB, while at the same time, the improvement in the Q-factor is almost 6 (from 6.5 at the input, it becomes more than 12 at the output). The theoretical predictions have been experimentally confirmed by measuring the transfer function of the FWM in a 17-km-long DSF under different operating conditions. The obtained results are in a very good agreement with those predicted theoretically.
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页码:1892 / 1902
页数:11
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