Parametric amplification and phase preserving amplitude regeneration of a 640 Gbit/s RZ-DPSK signal

Zohreh Lali-Dastjerdi, Michael Galili, Hans Christian Hansen Mulvad, Hao Hu, Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, Karsten Rottwitt, Christophe Peucheret

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    Abstract

    We report the first experimental demonstration of parametric amplification and all-optical phase-preserving amplitude regeneration for a 640 Gbit/s return-to-zero (RZ) differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) optical time division multiplexed (OTDM) signal. In the designed gain-flattened single-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier (FOPA), 620 fs short optical pulses are successfully amplified with 15 dB gain with error-free performance and less than 1 dB power penalty. Phase-preserving amplitude regeneration based on gain saturation in the FOPA is carried out for optical signals with degraded optical signal-to-noise ratio. An improvement of 2.2 dB in receiver sensitivity at a bit-error-ratio of 10−9 has been successfully achieved after regeneration, together with 13.3 dB net gain.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalOptics Express
    Volume21
    Issue number22
    Pages (from-to)25944-25953
    ISSN1094-4087
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

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