Wavelength conversion using fiber cross-phase modulation driven by two pump waves.

Wavelength conversion using all-optical phase modulation in a fiber driven by two pump waves is investigated. The operation features are analyzed using an all-optical phase modulation model with two parallel-/cross-polarized pump waves to generate a phase-preserving copy of the optical signal at an exact frequency up-/down-shifted by the two-pump detuning. The conversion efficiency is experimentally verified using a 300-m highly-nonlinear fiber.

Coherent UDWDM PON with joint subcarrier reception at OLT.

In this contribution, we report on the experimental investigation of an ultra-dense wavelength-division multiplexing (UDWDM) upstream link with up to 700 × 2.488 Gb/s polarization-division multiplexing differential quadrature phase-shift keying parallel upstream user channels transmitted over 80 km of standard single-mode fiber. We discuss challenges of the digital signal processing in the optical line terminal arising from the joint reception of several upstream user channels.

Experimental demonstration of a format-flexible single-carrier coherent receiver using data-aided digital signal processing.

We experimentally demonstrate the use of data-aided digital signal processing for format-flexible coherent reception of different 28-GBd PDM and 4D modulated signals in WDM transmission experiments over up to 7680 km SSMF by using the same resource-efficient digital signal processing algorithms for the equalization of all formats. Stable and regular performance in the nonlinear transmission regime is confirmed.

Experimental Investigation of 126-Gb/s 6PolSK-QPSK signals.

We experimentally generate 28-GBd 6-ary polarization-shift keying quadrature phase-shift keying (6PolSK-QPSK) signals by utilizing a high-speed 4-channel digital-to-analog converter and an integrated dual-polarization I/Q modulator. In WDM transmission experiments over up to 4800 km standard single-mode fiber, we compare the performance of 126-Gb/s 6PolSK-QPSK and 112-Gb/s polarization-division multiplexing (PDM) QPSK signals. Furthermore, we discuss the implications of applying an inner Reed-Solomon RS(511,455) forward error correction code in order to correct burst errors due to the anti-Gray mapping of 6PolSK-QPSK.

Highly efficient CW parametric conversion at 1550 nm in SOI waveguides by reverse biased p-i-n junction.

In this paper we present four-wave mixing (FWM) based parametric conversion experiments in p-i-n diode assisted silicon-on-insulator (SOI) nano-rib waveguides using continuous-wave (CW) light around 1550 nm wavelength. Using a reverse biased p-i-n waveguide diode we observe an increase of the wavelength conversion efficiency of more than 4.5 dB compared to low loss nano-rib waveguides without p-i-n junction, achieving a peak efficiency of -1 dB.

Multi-stage optical FDM of 12-channel 10-Gb/s data with 20-GHz exact channel spacing using fiber cross-phase modulation with optical subcarrier signals.

A sequential optical frequency-division multiplexing technique using cross-phase modulation in fibers with exactly frequency-controlled optical subcarrier signals is proposed and demonstrated. 12 channels of 10-Gb/s ASK/DPSK signals with 20-GHz exact channel spacing are successfully multiplexed all-optically at 12 stages with 1-km intervals.

Noise suppression properties of an interferometer-based regenerator for differential phase-shift keying data.

We studied the amplitude and phase noise suppression properties of an all-optical regenerator for differential phase-shift keying data. A detailed analytical investigation is performed and compared with numerical simulations for different working points. The results show that both amplitude and phase can be regenerated.