Improving the performance of a multiwavelength continuous-wave optical source based on supercontinuum by suppressing degenerate four-wave mixing

✍ Scribed by Yinbo Nan; Caiyun Lou; Jianping Wang; Li Huo; Yanfu Yang

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 548 KB
• Volume: 256
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0030-4018
• DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2005.06.081

✦ Synopsis

The influence of degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) on the performance of the multiwavelength continuous-wave (CW) optical source based on supercontinuum has been theoretically studied. By suppressing degenerate FWM, a 135channel supercontinuum CW optical source with 25-GHz spacing for 10-Gbit/s DWDM systems is experimentally demonstrated. Confirmation is provided with the generation of CW channel with crosstalk of other channels less than À28 dBm and the presentation of 10-Gbit/s eye-diagram and bit error rate performance.