Format Conversion of Optical Multilevel Signals Using FWM-Based Optical Phase Erasure
Journal article, 2011

An optical format conversion scheme of multilevel phase-shift keying (M-ary PSK) signals using the four-wave mixing based optical phase erasure is discussed in this paper. The conversion from differential quadrature phase-shift keying (DQPSK) to differential phase shift keying at 10 and 160 Gbaud, and the conversion from differential eight-ary phase-shift keying to DQPSK at 40 Gbaud have been experimentally demonstrated. The proposed scheme could be used as a phase erasure, in which a redundant tributary of the M-ary PSK signal is removed, or as an "updater" where the unwanted phase pattern is replaced with the new pattern.

differential quadrature

communications

differential 8-ary phase-shift keying

optical fiber

Differential phase-shift keying (DPSK)

four-wave mixing (FWM)

loop-mirror

format conversion

phase-shift keying (DQPSK)

phase modulation

wavelength converter

(D8PSK)

Author

Guo-Wei Lu

Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Ekawit Tipsuwannakul

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

T. Miyazaki

Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Carl Peter Lundström

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Magnus Karlsson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Peter Andrekson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Journal of Lightwave Technology

0733-8724 (ISSN) 1558-2213 (eISSN)

Vol. 29 16 2460-2466 5936087

Subject Categories

Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2011.2160977

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