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

All-optical phase and amplitude regenerator for next-generation telecommunications systems
All-optical phase and amplitude regenerator for next-generation telecommunications systems
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. 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 field3 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. 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.
main, methods, references, acknowledgements, author information
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Slavík, Radan, Parmigiani, Francesca, Kakande, Joseph, Lundström, Carl, Sjödin, Martin, Andrekson, Peter A., Weerasuriya, Ruwan, Sygletos, Stylianos, Ellis, Andrew D., Grüner-Nielsen, Lars, Jakobsen, Dan, Herstrøm, Søren, Phelan, Richard, O'Gorman, James, Bogris, Adonis, Syvridis, Dimitris, Dasgupta, Sonali, Petropoulos, Periklis and Richardson, David J. (2010) All-optical phase and amplitude regenerator for next-generation telecommunications systems. Nature Photonics, 4, 690-695. (doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.203).

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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. 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 field3 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. 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.

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Published date: 5 September 2010
Keywords: main, methods, references, acknowledgements, author information
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 177039
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/177039
ISSN: 1749-4885
PURE UUID: f3f88208-f3e8-4b38-b594-43fd48db6e03
ORCID for Radan Slavík: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9336-4262
ORCID for Francesca Parmigiani: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7784-2829
ORCID for Periklis Petropoulos: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-8034
ORCID for David J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 15 Mar 2011 09:33
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:57

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Author: Radan Slavík ORCID iD
Author: Francesca Parmigiani ORCID iD
Author: Joseph Kakande
Author: Carl Lundström
Author: Martin Sjödin
Author: Peter A. Andrekson
Author: Ruwan Weerasuriya
Author: Stylianos Sygletos
Author: Andrew D. Ellis
Author: Lars Grüner-Nielsen
Author: Dan Jakobsen
Author: Søren Herstrøm
Author: Richard Phelan
Author: James O'Gorman
Author: Adonis Bogris
Author: Dimitris Syvridis
Author: Sonali Dasgupta
Author: Periklis Petropoulos ORCID iD

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