All optical signal level swapping and multilevel amplitude noise mitigation based on different regions of optical parametric amplification

Opt Lett. 2016 Feb 15;41(4):677-80. doi: 10.1364/OL.41.000677.

Abstract

All optical signal level swapping and multilevel amplitude noise mitigation are experimentally demonstrated using the three gain regions of optical parametric amplification, i.e., linear, saturation, and inversion. The two-amplitude-shift-keying and eight-quadrature-amplitude-modulation optical communication systems with baud rates of both 10 and 20 Gbaud have been employed to demonstrate the proposed approaches. Less than 1% error-vector-magnitude degradation is observed after signal level swapping. For amplitude noise mitigation, a more than 20% decrease in amplitude error is confirmed.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.