Publication No: 4814

All-optical phase and amplitude regeneration properties of a 40 Gbit/s DPSK black-box phase sensitive amplifier

F.Parmigiani¹, R.Slavík¹, J.Kakande¹, L.Grüner-Nielsen², D.Jakobsen², S.Herstrøm², R.Weerasuriya³, S.Sygletos³, A.D.Ellis³, P.Petropoulos¹, and D.J.Richardson¹

1. Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK
2. OFS, Priorparken 680, 2605 Brøndby, Denmark.
3. Tyndall National Institute and Department of Physics, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

Abstract

We experimentally study the pure amplitude and phase regeneration capabilities of a blackbox degenerate four wave mixing (FWM) based bit-rate-flexible phase sensitive amplifier (PSA) for a 40 Gbit/s differential phase-shift keyed (DPSK) signal.

European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Turin 9-23 Sep (2010)

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