Guan Pengyu, Da Ros Francesco, Lillieholm Mads, Kjøller Niels-Kristian, Hu Hao, Røge Kasper Meldgaard, Galili Michael, Morioka Toshio, Oxenløwe Leif Katsuo
DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark, Ørsteds Plads 343, Kgs. Lyngby, 2800, DK, Denmark.
Nat Commun. 2018 Mar 13;9(1):1049. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03458-8.
Optical data regeneration is attractive, due to its potential to increase transmission reach and data throughput in communication systems, and several interesting proposals have been made. However, efficient and scalable solutions for regeneration of multiple parallel wavelength channels have been elusive, constituting a key challenge, which must be overcome for optical regeneration to have any prospect of being adapted in actual communication systems. Here we report a scalable wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) regeneration scheme for phase only regeneration, which satisfies the multichannel requirement, using a set of optical time-lens-based Fourier processors combined with a single phase-sensitive amplifier (PSA). We describe the concept theoretically, and experimentally demonstrate simultaneous regeneration of 16 WDM channels with 50-GHz spacing, each carrying 10-Gbit/s DPSK phase-modulated data. The proposed scheme relies on ultrafast broadband optical processing and is inherently scalable in modulation speed and channel number.
光学数据再生具有吸引力,因为它有潜力增加通信系统中的传输距离和数据吞吐量,并且已经提出了一些有趣的方案。然而,用于多个并行波长信道再生的高效且可扩展的解决方案一直难以实现,这构成了一个关键挑战,要使光学再生有机会应用于实际通信系统,就必须克服这一挑战。在此,我们报告一种用于仅相位再生的可扩展波分复用(WDM)再生方案,该方案使用一组基于光学时间透镜的傅里叶处理器与单个相敏放大器(PSA)相结合,满足了多信道要求。我们从理论上描述了这一概念,并通过实验证明了能够同时再生16个间隔为50GHz的WDM信道,每个信道承载10Gbit/s的差分相移键控(DPSK)相位调制数据。所提出的方案依赖于超快宽带光学处理,并且在调制速度和信道数量方面具有内在的可扩展性。