All-optical NRZ-to-RZ format conversion at 10 Gbit/s with 1-to-4 wavelength multicasting exploiting cross-phase modulation & four-wave-mixing in single dispersion-flattened highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber

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Hui, ZQ, Zhang, B and Zhang, J. (2015). All-optical NRZ-to-RZ format conversion at 10 Gbit/s with 1-to-4 wavelength multicasting exploiting cross-phase modulation & four-wave-mixing in single dispersion-flattened highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber. Journal of Modern Optics. 63 (8), pp. 724 - 734. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2015.1094149
AuthorsHui, ZQ, Zhang, B and Zhang, J.
Abstract

© 2015 Taylor & Francis.All-optical NRZ-to-RZ format conversion with a function of wavelength multicasting is proposed in this paper, which is realized by exploiting cross-phase modulation (XPM) and four-wave-mixing (FWM) in a dispersion-flattened highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber (DF-HNL-PCF). The designed format converter is experimentally demonstrated, for which the 1-to-4 wavelength multicasting is achieved simultaneously by filtering out two FWM idler waves and both blue-chirped and red-chirped components of the broadened NRZ spectrum induced by XPM. Moreover, the wavelength tunability and dynamic characteristics of the proposed NRZ-to-RZ format converter are also exploited using the different central wavelengths of an optical clock signal and varying the input optical power at a DF-HNL-PCF in our experiment. It is shown that the designed format converter can possess a wide range of operational wavelength over 17 nm, an optimal extinction ratio of 11.6 dB, and a Q-factor of 7.1, respectively. Since the proposed scheme uses an optical fiber-based configuration and is easy for implementation, it can be very useful for future applications in advanced fiber-optic communication networks.

Year2015
JournalJournal of Modern Optics
Journal citation63 (8), pp. 724 - 734
PublisherTaylor & Francis
ISSN0950-0340
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2015.1094149
Web address (URL)https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500340.2015.1094149
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Print03 Nov 2015
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Deposited28 Jul 2016
Accepted09 Sep 2015
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