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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

All-optical regeneration of differential phase-shift keyed signals based on phase-sensitive amplification

Kevin Croussore, Cheol-Hwan Kim, Guifang Li

Published May 24, 2005• 12 citations
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Abstract

All-optical regeneration of differential phase-shift keyed signals based on phase-sensitive amplification in a nonlinear fiber Sagnac interferometer is described. Nearly ideal phase regeneration can be achieved in the undepleted pump regime, with output differential phase noise limited only by fast fluctuations of the pump phase relative to the DPSK signal. Operating in the depleted pump regime offers the possibility of simultaneously regenerating both phase and amplitude information of DPSK signals while providing low noise, phase-sensitive gain.

DOI
10.1117/12.606954

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All-optical regeneration of differential phase-shift keyed signals based on phase-sensitive amplification in a nonlinear fiber Sagnac interferometer is described. Nearly ideal phase regeneration can be achieved in the undepleted pump regime, with output differential phase noise limited only by fast fluctuations of the pump phase relative to the DPSK signal. Operating in the depleted pump regime offers the possibility of simultaneously regenerating both phase and amplitude information of DPSK signals while providing low noise, phase-sensitive gain.
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Amplification and simultaneous phase regeneration of differential phase-shift keying （DPSK） signals is demonstrated using a phase regenerator. Phase regeneration is achieved in a Sagnac fiber interferometer comprised of photonic crystal fiber operating in an un-depleted pump regime. The formula of signal after phase regenerator is derived. For different incident power of signal, the relations between signal-pump phase difference and signal gain are discussed, as well as the influence of fiber length on signal output intensity. The optimum parameters of the phase regenerator are given. The distributions of phase and intensities for both the non-regenerated and regenerated signals are simulated. Simulations show that nearly ideal regeneration can be achieved for the DPSK signals.
We demonstrate numerically phase regeneration of a star-8QAM signal with two amplitude and four phase states in a phase-sensitive amplifier. In a dual-stage setup, two phase-conjugated idlers are generated in a first stage consisting of two fiber-optic parametric phase-insensitive amplifiers operated in highly nonlinear gain regime. These are used as pumps in the second, phase-sensitive amplification stage which enables efficient phase regeneration via a degenerate four-wave-mixing process. The latter can be operated in two different operation modes: without format conversion or with phase-shifted amplitude levels. In both regimes, we observe high phase-regeneration efficiency for all amplitude levels: the initial phase noise with 0.2 rad standard deviation is reduced by a factor of 5.
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