Demonstration of a Dual-Pump FOPA Based 48 Channel Multicarrier Optical Source for WDM Transmission Systems

2016 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2016 Shanghai): Proceedings 2016
Sergejs Olonkins, Vjačeslavs Bobrovs, Ģirts Ivanovs, Rolands Parts, Pēteris Gavars

In this paper the authors demonstrate a model of a multicarrier light source for wavelength division multiplexed transmission systems, where two dual-pump fiber optical parametric amplifiers are used to increase the number of initial carriers three times. The optical radiation of the 16 initial carriers is combined and afterwards divided among the two parametric amplifiers, which are placed in parallel in the scheme. Each amplifier is responsible for generating 16 additional carriers that afterwards will be used as transport for the informative signal. The proposed multicarrier source solution allows to produce 48 carriers with 100 GHz channel spacing and with power non-uniformity below 2 dB among all the channels at the output of the transmitter.

Keywords
Multicarrier optical source, fiber optical parametric amplifiers, all-optical signal processing, wavelength conversion, wavelength division multiplexing
DOI
10.1109/PIERS.2016.7735422
Hyperlink
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7735422/

Olonkins, S., Bobrovs, V., Ivanovs, Ģ., Parts, R., Gavars, P. Demonstration of a Dual-Pump FOPA Based 48 Channel Multicarrier Optical Source for WDM Transmission Systems. In: 2016 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2016 Shanghai): Proceedings, China, Shanghai, 8-11 August, 2016. Piscataway: IEEE, 2016, pp.3768-3772. ISBN 978-1-934142-28-8. e-ISBN 978-1-5090-6093-1. ISSN 1559-9450. Available from: doi:10.1109/PIERS.2016.7735422

Publication language
English (en)