Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 12, Issue 11, 110601(2014)

QPSK wavelength multicasting based on four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifier

Jun Qin1, Hongxiang Wang1, Danshi Wang1, Min Zhang1, Yuefeng Ji1, and Guo-Wei Lu2
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communication, School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China
  • 2Institute of Innovative Science and Technology, Tokai University, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan
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    We experimentally demonstrate one-to-five quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) wavelength multicasting based on four-wave mixing in bulk semiconductor optical amplifier. The input 25 Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero QPSK signal is successfully multicast to five new wavelengths with all information preserved. All the multicast channels are with a power penalty less than 1.1 dB at a bit error rate (BER) of 10-3. A characterization of the conversion efficiency in terms of pump and signal powers using the BER as figure of merit is also presented, the results indicate that the pump and signal powers should be optimized to eliminate the introduced deleterious nonlinear components.

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    Jun Qin, Hongxiang Wang, Danshi Wang, Min Zhang, Yuefeng Ji, Guo-Wei Lu. QPSK wavelength multicasting based on four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifier[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2014, 12(11): 110601

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    Received: Jun. 4, 2014

    Accepted: Jul. 16, 2014

    Published Online: Oct. 27, 2014

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    DOI:10.3788/col201412.110601

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