Phase-Sensitive Amplified Transmission Links for Improved Sensitivity and Nonlinearity Tolerance
Journal article, 2015

In this paper we investigate the properties of transmission links amplified by phase-sensitive amplifiers (PSAs). Using an analytic description we explain the principles enabling improved sensitivity compared to conventional links amplified by phase-insensitive amplifiers (PIAs) and mitigation of nonlinear transmission distortions. We demonstrate these features using numerical simulations and in particular we show the possibility of efficiently mitigating both self-phase modulation (SPM) induced distortions and nonlinear phase noise (NLPN) if the link dispersion map is optimized. The properties of the noise on signal and idler are important and to enable NLPN mitigation the noise must be correlated at the link input. We investigate the role of the dispersion map in detail and show that in a link with standard single mode fiber (SSMF) the optimum dispersion map for efficient nonlinearity mitigation corresponds to pre-compensation of an amount equal to the effective loss length. Furthermore, we experimentally demonstrate both improved sensitivity and mitigation of nonlinearities in a 105 km PSA-amplified link transmitting 10 GBd 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM) data. We measure a combined effect allowing for more than 12 dB larger span loss in a PSA-amplified link compared to a conventional PIA-amplified link to reach the same bit error ratio (BER) of 1×10-3.

Author

Samuel L I Olsson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

William Corcoran

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Carl Peter Lundström

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Tobias Eriksson

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. 33 3 710-721 6952954

Phase-sensitive optical parametric amplifiers (PSOPA)

European Commission (EC) (EC/FP7/291618), 2012-03-01 -- 2017-02-28.

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2014.2367096

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