Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 13, Issue 1, 010601(2015)
Multichannel wavelength multicasting for two QPSK signals based on FWM in SOA
We experimentally demonstrate multichannel wavelength multicasting for two nonreturn-to-zero quadrature phase-shift keying (NRZ-QPSK) channels based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). Through the interaction with the two pumps in SOA, the input two 25 Gb/s NRZ-QPSK channels are successfully simultaneously multicast to five and two new wavelengths, respectively. All the multicast channels are with a power penalty less than 2.5 dB at a bit error rate (BER) of 10-3. A characterization of the system performance using conversion efficiency and BER as figures-of-merit in terms of pump and signal powers is also presented. The results indicate that the pump and signal powers can be optimized to eliminate the introduced deleterious nonlinear components. The wavelengths of the two NRZ-QPSK channels and the two pumps need to be specified to avoid the crosstalk induced by high-order FWM.
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Jun Qin, Yuefeng Ji, Hongxiang Wang, Danshi Wang, Min Zhang, Guo-Wei Lu, "Multichannel wavelength multicasting for two QPSK signals based on FWM in SOA," Chin. Opt. Lett. 13, 010601 (2015)
Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
Received: Aug. 22, 2014
Accepted: Oct. 24, 2014
Published Online: Dec. 29, 2014
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