Open AccessImpairments in deeply-saturated optical parametric amplifiers for amplitude- and phase-modulated signals
Author(s) -
Nikola Alić,
R.M. Jopson,
Jian Ren,
Evgeny Myslivets,
Rui Jiang,
A.H. Gnauck,
S. Radic
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.15.008997
Subject(s) - optics , phase modulation , optical amplifier , parametric statistics , amplifier , amplitude , saturation (graph theory) , amplitude modulation , optical parametric amplifier , phase (matter) , differential phase , parametric oscillator , physics , optical fiber , erbium doped fiber amplifier , materials science , frequency modulation , phase noise , telecommunications , optoelectronics , bandwidth (computing) , computer science , mathematics , laser , statistics , cmos , combinatorics , quantum mechanics
We measure impairment of on-off-keyed and differential-phase-shift-keyed signals imposed by gain saturation in a fiber parametric amplifier. Phase modulation is observed to be more robust, particularly for deep (15 dB) saturation.