All-optical phase and amplitude regenerator for next-generation telecommunications systems

Abstract

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(1,2). 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(3) 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(4,5). 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.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.203
Uncontrolled Keywords: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Publication ISSN: 1749-4885
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2024 10:10
Date Deposited: 09 Jan 2013 11:18
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PURE Output Type: Letter
Published Date: 2010-09-05
Authors: Slavik, Radan
Parmigiani, Francesca
Kakande, Joseph
Lundström, Carl
Sjödin, Martin
Andrekson, Peter A.
Weerasuriya, Ruwan
Sygletos, Stylianos (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-2063-8733)
Ellis, Andrew D. (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-0417-0547)
Grüner-Nielsen, Lars
Jakobsen, Dan
Herstrøm, Søren
Phelan, Richard
O'Gorman, James
Bogris, Adonis
Syvridis, Dimitris
Dasgupta, Sonali
Petropoulos, Periklis
Richardson, David J.

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