Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 41, Issue 5, 505005(2014)

A High-Efficiency Tunable Polarization-Insensitive Wavelength Convertor Based on Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing in a Highly Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fiber

Huang Xinning1,2、*, Xie Xiaoping1, Zhao Wei1, Han Biao1, and Feng Huan1
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    A high-efficiency tunable polarization-insensitive all-optical wavelength convertor for 10 Gb/s return-to-zero on-off keying (RZ-OOK) signals using degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) in a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is demonstrated. The residual birefringence in the 50 m dispersion-flattened PCF with 11 W-1·km-1 nonlinear coefficient guarantees the FWM-based wavelength conversion to be polarization-insensitive when the pump polarization is exactly at 45°to the birefringent axes of the PCF. Experimental results show that with 45°pump launch, the polarization dependence of FWM in the PCF can be decreased to less than 0.6 dB over the entire 25 nm conversion bandwidth. The optical signal-to-noise ratios (OSNR) of the converted signals are better than 40 dB and the conversion efficiencies are better than -15 dB over the conversion range with 10 Gb/s signal polarization-scrambled.

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    Huang Xinning, Xie Xiaoping, Zhao Wei, Han Biao, Feng Huan. A High-Efficiency Tunable Polarization-Insensitive Wavelength Convertor Based on Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing in a Highly Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fiber[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2014, 41(5): 505005

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    Paper Information

    Category: Optical communication

    Received: Oct. 20, 2013

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Apr. 18, 2014

    The Author Email: Huang Xinning (honeyhxn@opt.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/cjl201441.0505005

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