Open AccessExtinction ratio improvement by pump-modulated four-wave mixing in a dispersion-flattened nonlinear photonic crystal fiber
Author(s) -
K. K. Chow,
Chester Shu,
Chunqing Lin,
Anders Bjarklev
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/opex.13.008900
Subject(s) - extinction ratio , optics , photonic crystal fiber , dispersion (optics) , materials science , four wave mixing , photonic crystal , extinction (optical mineralogy) , mixing (physics) , bit error rate , dispersion shifted fiber , optical fiber , nonlinear optics , physics , telecommunications , wavelength , fiber optic sensor , laser , computer science , quantum mechanics , channel (broadcasting)
We demonstrate extinction ratio improvement by using pump-modulated four-wave mixing in a dispersion-flattened nonlinear photonic crystal fiber. A 6-dB improvement in the extinction ratio of a degraded return-to-zero signal has been achieved. A power penalty improvement of 3 dB at 10(-9) bit-error-rate level is obtained in the 10 Gb/s bit-error-rate measurements.