All-optical phase and amplitude regenerator for next-generation telecommunications systems
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2010

Fibre-optic communications systems have traditionally carried data using binary (on-off) encoding of the light amplitude. However, next-generation systems will use both the amplitude and phase of the optical carrier to achieve higher spectral efficiencies and thus higher overall data capacities. Although this approach requires highly complex transmitters and receivers, the increased capacity and many further practical benefits that accrue from a full knowledge of the amplitude and phase of the optical field more than outweigh this additional hardware complexity and can greatly simplify optical network design. However, use of the complex optical field gives rise to a new dominant limitation to system performance—nonlinear phase noise. Developing a device to remove this noise is therefore of great technical importance. Here, we report the development of the first practical (‘black-box’) all-optical regenerator capable of removing both phase and amplitude noise from binary phase-encoded optical communications signals.

Författare

Radan Slavík

University of Southampton

Francesca Parmigiani

University of Southampton

Joseph Kakande

University of Southampton

Carl Peter Lundström

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Martin E Sjödin

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Peter Andrekson

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Ruwan Weerasuriya

Tyndall National Institute at National University of Ireland, Cork

S. Sygletos

Tyndall National Institute at National University of Ireland, Cork

A. D. Ellis

Tyndall National Institute at National University of Ireland, Cork

Lars Gruner-Nielsen

D Jakobsen

Søren Herstrøm

Richard Phelan

Trinity College Dublin

James O´Gorman

Trinity College Dublin

Adonis Bogris

University of Athens

Dimitris Syvridis

University of Athens

Sonali Dasgupta

University of Southampton

P. Petropoulos

University of Southampton

David J. Richardson

University of Southampton

Nature Photonics

1749-4885 (ISSN) 17494893 (eISSN)

Vol. 4 10 690-695

Ämneskategorier

Telekommunikation

DOI

10.1038/NPHOTON.2010.203

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