光时分复用准线性传输系统的非线性相互作用

研究了高速色散控制准线性传输系统中的信道内交叉相位调制和信道内四波混频等非线性相互作用,分析了信道内交叉相位调制导致定时抖动和信道内四波混频导致振幅抖动随距离和色散分布强度变化的规律,然后运用快速傅里叶变换法分析了信道内交叉相位调制导致的2^5-1的伪随机码流的定时抖动和振幅抖动及寄生脉冲的产生．证实了理论分析。最后通过数值模拟实现了色散分布强度为127的强色散控制系统中准线性脉冲序列1600km的稳定传输,结论对用标准单模光纤实现高速传输具有重要意义。     

Optimized all-optical amplitude reshaping by exploiting nonlinear phase shift in fiber for degenerated FWM

We describe a novel performance optimization method for all-optical amplitude reshaping via degenerated four-wave mixing(FWM) in highly nonlinear optical fiber.The proposed optimization method is achieved by judiciously configuring the FWM operational condition and exploiting the nonlinear phase shift induced by self-and cross-phase modulations to properly influence the FWM conversion efficiency.Through the proposed scheme,fully functional and prevailing reshaping performance,including significant amplitude jitter suppression and extinction ratio improvement,is obtained within a single FWM stage.Results of the present theoretical calculation and numerical simulation verify the feasibility and advantages of the proposed scheme.     

Investigation of Intrachannel Nonlinear Distortion in 40 Gbit/s Transmission over Standard Fiber

We describe new distance-dependent experiments investigating intrachannel nonlinear distortion in 40 Gbit/s optical time division mulitplexed transmission over standard fiber. Simulation results predicting significant reduction in the distortion due to intrachannel four-wave mixing by using alternating pulse polarization were experimentally confirmed.     

Investigation of Intrachannel Nonlinear Distortion in 40 Gbit/s Transmission over Standard Fiber

We describe new distance-dependent experiments investigating intrachannel nonlinear distortion in 40 Gbit/s optical time division mulitplexed transmission over standard fiber. Simulation results predicting significant reduction in the distortion due to intrachannel four-wave mixing by using alternating pulse polarization were experimentally confirmed.     

Characteristics of wavelength conversion of short optical pulses in quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers

The characteristics of short optical pulse four-wave mixing (FWM) and amplification in quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers (QD-SOAs) are investigated taken into account the effect of the multi-discrete QD energy levels. Different saturation and recovery response for the electron and hole states are observed, which is attributed to different energy spacing between the energy states. We found that the 3 dB saturation energy of QD-SOA depends on the pulse width for short input pulses. Also, the optimum time delay between the probe and pump pulses in QD-SOAs, which provides maximum FWM efficiency in QD-SOAs, is smaller than the optimum delay in quantum well SOA.     

Reversing intrachannel ghost-pulse generation by midspan self-phase modulation

Intrachannel pulse interactions are the dominating nonlinear effects in modern transmission systems with high modulation speeds. Scaled symmetries have proved to be effective in suppressing amplitude and timing jitter of mark pulses due to nonlinearity but not for ghost-pulse generation into the empty slots. A method of using midspan self-phase modulation to reverse the generation of ghost pulses due to intrachannel four-wave mixing is proposed. Computer simulations demonstrate significant improvement of signal quality by a combination of scaled symmetries and midspan self-phase modulation.     

Resonant nonlinear intrachannel interactions in strongly dispersion-managed transmission systems

Nonlinear intrachannel interactions in a transmission system with strong periodic dispersion management are studied. The ghost pulse at the zero bit is shown to grow resonantly as a result of periodic forcing and temporal phase matching with the signal pulses. The growth rate depends on the degree of overlap between the signals. The analysis agrees with direct numerical simulation of the full system. Growth rates for various bit patterns as a function of map strength are obtained.     

Enhancement and Suppression of Four-Wave Mixing in a Four-Level Atomic System

We report observations of the enhancement and suppression of four-wave mixing （FWM） in an electromagnetically induced transparency window in a Y-type ^85 Rb atomic system. The results show the evolution of the dressed effects （from pure enhancement to partial enhancement/suppression, and finally into pure suppression） in the degenerate-FWM processes. Moreover, we use the perturbation chain method to describe the FWM process. Finally, we observe the polarization dependence of the enhancement and suppression of the FWM signal.     

Reduction of four-wave mixing noises in FDM optical fiber transmission systems with quaternary bit-phase arranged return-to-zero

To reduce four-wave mixing (FWM) noises in long-haul frequency-division-multiplexing optical fiber transmission systems, quaternary bit-phase arranged return-to-zero (Q-BARZ) is proposed as a modulation format, and FWM noises are analyzed by considering pulse overlapping in both time and frequency regions. It is found that FWM noises with channel frequencies are drastically reduced in Q-BARZ.     

Efficient multiwave mixing in the ultraslow propagation regime and the role of multiphoton quantum destructive interference

We analyze a lifetime-broadened four-state four-wave-mixing (FWM) scheme in the ultraslow propagation regime and show that the generated FWM field can acquire the same group velocity and pulse shape as those of an ultraslow pump field. We show that a new type of induced transparency resulted from multiphoton destructive interference that significantly reduced the pump field loss. Such induced transparency based on multphoton destructive interference may have important applications in other nonlinear optical processes.     

Numerical discrimination of intrachannel cross-phase modulation and intrachannel four-wave mixing and their respective effect on 40 Gbit/s transmissions

We propose a numerical method to accurately discriminate the influence of the different intrachannel nonlinear effects occurring in 40 Gbit/s optical transmissions, following an analogy with methods used to discriminate WDM interchannel effects. In contrast to other studies showing the predominance of intrachannel cross-phase modulation when low-dispersion fibers are used, in our study intrachannel four-wave mixing is the most penalizing effect in all investigated cases.     

All-optical up-conversion for 2.5-Gb/s signals in ROF systems based on FWM effect in HNLF

We propose and demonstrate experimentally a novel scheme to realize all-optical up-conversion and wavelength-conversion based on the bi-directional-pump four-wave mixing （FWM） effect in high nonlinear fibers （HNLFs）.The pump is generated with optical carrier suppression in a Mach-Zehnder modulator.The two pumps are always parallel and phase-locked.A balance-detection photo-detector for optical signal detection is employed with 3-dB improvement in power penalty.The 2.5-Gb/s signals are transmitted successfully over the 25-km single-mode fiber in 30-GHz radio over fiber （ROF） systems.     

Investigation on modified FWM suppression methods in DWDM optical communication system

The focus of this paper is to investigate the methods for Four Wave Mixing (FWM) suppression. Modified techniques equal and unequal-channel spacing with polarization, equal channel spacing with alternate channel delay, optical coupling and varied laser power have been proposed to reduce the impact of FWM on Dense Wave Length Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical communication system. Further the comparison of reduction of FWM for existing and proposed techniques has been discussed by varying the dispersion of fiber from 0 to 16 ps/nm/km. It has been observed that the suggested techniques are simpler to design optical communication system and superior to the existing methods.     

Theory of pulse propagation and four-wave mixing in a quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifier

A theory, combining the relations of pulse traveling into quantum dot (QD) semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) with the four-wave mixing (FWM) theory in these SOAs, is developed. Carrier density pulsation (CDP), carrier heating (CH), and spectral hole burning (SHB) contributions on FWM efficiency are discussed. Effect of QD ground state and wetting layer are included. An additional parameter appears in the gain integral relation of QD SOAs. An equation formulating pulses in the QD SOAs is introduced. We have found that FWM in QD SOAs is detuning and is pulse width dependent. For short pulses, CH is dominant at high detunings (10–100 GHz) while at higher detunings (>100 GHz) the SHB is the dominant one. Undesired paunch behavior is shown in QD SOAs then, CDP must be reduced.     

Effects of frequency/polarization allocations and the zero-dispersion frequency on FDM lightwave transmission systems

In long-haul frequency-division-multiplexing lightwave transmission systems, transmission characteristics are degraded by four-wave mixing (FWM) generated in optical fibers. To overcome this problem, several FWM suppression techniques have been reported. In this paper, dependence of FWM noises on frequency allocations, polarization allocations, and the zero-dispersion frequency is investigated. It is revealed that FWM noises are drastically decreased in frequency allocations such as equally spaced, repeated unequally spaced (RUS), equally spaced RUS, and unequally spaced RUS allocations by arranging polarization allocations of the channels with an increase in a separation between the channel frequencies and the zero-dispersion frequency.     

A bandwidth-efficient channel allocation scheme for mitigating FWM in ultra-dense WDM-PON

In this paper, we investigate four-wave mixing (FWM) effects in the ultra-dense wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (UDWDM-PON) system and propose an efficient channel allocation scheme to mitigate the FWM impact. This scheme is formed by grouping signal channels into several blocks with different channel spacing. Through numerical analysis and simulations, our proposed scheme is verified to be able to reduce the FWM effects and have higher bandwidth efficiency than the traditional unequal channel allocation scheme. The simulation results also demonstrate that our proposed scheme can achieve nearly 4 dB increases in optical power budget of the UDWDM-PON systems at the BER of 1e−3, in comparison with the equal spaced channel scheme.     

Performance investigation of suppression of four wave mixing using optical phase conjugation with different modulation format in DWDM soliton communication system

The performance of dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) soliton transmission system for returnto-zero (RZ) and non-return-to-zero (NRZ) modulation formats have been investigated. The main aim of this paper is to estimate and mitigate the four wave mixing (FWM) power by using in-line optical phase conjugator (OPC). The effect of FWM has been estimated using real fiber link having nonlinear and attenuation losses. The FWM power is strongly suppressed by introducing destructive interference between the first and second halves of in-line OPC. It has been indicated that RZ with OPC yields the better performance with FWM power suppression (more than 20 dBm in certain cases) with reasonable bit error rate and Q-factor.     

基于光纤中四波混频效应的全光串-并转换研究

 为了实现高速信号的降速处理,设计并通过实验演示了一种高速全光串-并转换系统。在方案中,利用时钟脉冲自身的频谱宽度和光纤中四波混频的高速响应特性,可以从一个光分频时钟脉冲出发,利用光纤中群速度色散（GVD）致脉冲展宽效应,把一个重复频率为10 GHz的时钟窄脉冲在时域上展宽,并通过光纤中的四波混频过程,将一路40 Gb/s 的归零（RZ）码信号转换成为4路10 Gb/s信号,完成串-并转换功能。该方案响应速率高,对波长和码率透明,并具有很大的转换路数可拓展性。     

Electrical post-compensation of intrachannel nonlinearities in 10GBaud coherent QPSK transmission systems

Electrical post-compensation of intrachannel nonlinearities in 10GBaud coherent QPSK transmission systems is proposed. The channel inversion method is implemented with a coarse split-step Fourier algorithm through digital signal processing at the receiver side. Simulation results show that simultaneous compensation of intrachannel nonlinearities and chromatic dispersion can be achieved with much simplified signal processing structure. The required optical signal-to-noise ratio at certain bit error ratio is remarkably reduced when the intrachannel nonlinearities induced impairments are dominant.     

Ultra-short optical pulse shaping using semiconductor optical amplifier

Optical ultra-short pulse compression and amplification using semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is presented. Using pump-probe pulse configuration, we present an SOA model which includes the nonlinear effects such as, spectral hole burning (SHB), carrier heating (CH), two-photon absorption (TPA) and group velocity dispersion (GVD) taking into account gain spectrum effect. Then by adjusting time delay between the pump pulse and probe pulse we use the model for simultaneous compression and amplification of probe pulse. We also analyze the four wave mixing (FWM) signal during pulse compression process. It is shown that dispersive effect of GVD on output probe pulse becomes more important for larger cavity length and probe-pump pulses relative time delays.