Amplitude Limiting of Time-Interleaved Multi-Wavelength Optical Signals Using Saturation of Four-Wave Mixing in a Fiber

Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria

Proceedings: ECOC 2009

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Tanabe, Saori; Matsumoto, Masayuki (Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-Oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan)

Abstract:
Simultaneous noise suppression of time-interleaved three-wavelength optical signals using saturation of four-wave mixing in a fiber is reported. Nonlinear phase noise reduction of three-wavelength DPSK signals is demonstrated using the phase-preserving amplitude equalization.