Polarization-assisted phase-sensitive processor

Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a phase-sensitive optical processor, capable of generating two codirectional and pi-phase-shifted phase-sensitive amplifiers (PSAs) in a single device. Phase-sensitive operation is obtained by polarization mixing a phase-locked signal/idler pair generated in a degenerate dual-pump vector parametric amplifier based on four-wave mixing in a highly nonlinear fiber. We refer to this configuration as a polarization assisted PSA and demonstrate some of the applications that it may find. First, we experimentally demonstrate the regeneration of a binary phase shift keying signal in a system that requires only a very low nonlinear phase shift of 0.35 rad. Second, we decompose a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) signal into its in-phase and quadrature components. While application to a QPSK signal is shown in our demonstration, we demonstrate numerically that any complex modulation format signal can be decomposed using this approach. Finally, we use our processor to regenerate QPSK signals in a single nonlinear device

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ORCID for Francesca Parmigiani: orcid.org/0000-0001-7784-2829

ORCID for Radan Slavík: orcid.org/0000-0002-9336-4262

ORCID for Peter Horak: orcid.org/0000-0002-8710-8764

ORCID for Periklis Petropoulos: orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-8034

ORCID for David J. Richardson: orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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