Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifier Performance in a 1-Tb/s DWDM Communication System PROJECT TITLE :Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifier Performance in a 1-Tb/s DWDM Communication SystemABSTRACT:We have reduced signal-signal four-wave mixing crosstalk in a fiber optical parametric amplifier (OPA) by using a short nonlinear fiber for the gain medium and a high-power pump. This allowed us to obtain less than 1 dB penalty for amplification of 26 dense wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) channels modulated at 43.7 Gb/s return to zero-differential phase-shift keying, with the OPA placed between transmitter and receiver. We then used the same OPA in several different roles for a long-haul transmission system. We did not insert the OPA within the loop, but investigated this role indirectly by using equivalent results for small numbers of loop recirculations. We found that standard erbium-doped fiber amplifiers currently hold an advantage over this OPA, which becomes negligible for long distances. This paper shows that at this time OPAs can handle amplification of WDM traffic in excess of 1 Tb/s with little degradation. It also indicates that with further improvements, fiber OPAs could be a contender for wideband amplification in future optical Communication networks. Did you like this research project? To get this research project Guidelines, Training and Code... Click Here facebook twitter google+ linkedin stumble pinterest Noise Suppression Mechanisms in Regenerators Based on XGC in an SOA With Subsequent Optical Filtering Ultrahigh Speed Optical Signal Processing Logic Based on an SOA-MZI
