Abstract
Phase-sensitive cascaded second-harmonic generation and difference-frequency generation in a periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide allow converting two orthogonal quadratures of an optical field to different wavelengths, thus enabling simultaneous quadrature phase-shift keying-to- \(2\times \) binary phase-shift keying modulation format and wavelength conversions. Static phase-sensitive extinction ratios above 20 dB are obtained for both quadratures, resulting in error-free dynamic operation with low penalty (BER (10-9) ) at 10 Gbaud.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | IEEE Photonics Technology Letters |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1207-1210 |
| ISSN | 1041-1135 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- Phase shift keying
- Nonlinear optics
- Periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN)
- Phase-sensitive amplification