Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Enhancing Performance of Fiber-based FWM in Coherent Communication System by SBS-Induced Nonlinear Phase

Chaoran Huang, Ning Zhang, Bofang Zheng, Chester Shu

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations

Abstract

We demonstrate the use of SBS to re-establish phase-matched condition for four-wave mixing in a coherent communication system. A 6.6 dB Q-factor improvement along with 11.5 dB OSNR enhancement is obtained in the output idler.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2016.sm2f.3

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