Characterization and Applications of Vector Phase-Sensitive Amplifiers
Licentiate thesis, 2015

This work is devoted to the characterization of vector phase-sensitive amplifiers and processors. A detailed analysis of degenerate vector phase-sensitive amplifier (PSA) is performed. The gain and phase-sensitive extinction ratio are theoretically analyzed using three-wave theory. Experiments and simulation results confirm the validity of this three-wave theory. The influence of polarization-mode dispersion is also evaluated, showing that aligning the pump polarizations at the fiber input is essential in order to achieve the theoretically predicted results. The scheme is also compared to the degenerate scalar PSA scheme. At the same pump power, the vector PSA has lower gain but also less influence from higher-order idlers and lower pump depletion due to FWM between the pumps. Using the degenerate vector PSA, phase-sensitive (PS) amplification of dual-polarization (DP) binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) signals was demonstrated. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first demonstration of a DP-modulated signal with large net phase-sensitive gain. Furthermore, we also demonstrated that this scheme can phase regenerate the signal. The same scheme was also used for a different purpose: quadrature decomposition into two cross-polarized waves. We demonstrated demultiplexing of quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) signal into two cross-polarized BPSK signals by the operating the amplifier in phase-insensitive mode. The design of a novel phase-locked loop scheme enabled stable operation and negligible penalty in the decomposition.

parametric amplification

phase-sensitive amplification

fiber nonlinearities

four-wave mixing

all-optical processing

Room Kollektorn, MC2 - Kemivägen 9, Chalmers
Opponent: Per Olof Hedekvist

Author

Abel Lorences Riesgo

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Phase-Sensitive Amplification and Regeneration of Dual-Polarization BPSK without Polarization Diversity

2014 European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC 2014; Cannes; France; 21 September 2014 through 25 September 2014,;(2014)p. Art. no. 6964045-

Paper in proceeding

Experimental analysis of degenerate vector phase-sensitive amplification

Optics Express,;Vol. 22(2014)p. 21889-21902

Journal article

Quadrature demultiplexing using a degenerate vector parametric amplifier

Optics Express,;Vol. 22(2014)p. 29424-29434

Journal article

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Technical report MC2 - Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology

Room Kollektorn, MC2 - Kemivägen 9, Chalmers

Opponent: Per Olof Hedekvist

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