Performance investigation of optical wavelength conversion using a newly designed highly nonlinear ultra-flattened dispersion fibre

Abstract

We report an analysis of the wavelength conversion using a newly designed highly nonlinear ultra-flattened dispersion fibre (HN-UFF) for different signal modulation formats. A new technical solution is presented for high bit rate wideband wavelength conversion without any additional pump signals. Two-channel 80 Gb s−1 modulated signals with differential quadrature phase shift keying (DQPSK) are considered for wavelength conversion using four wave mixing (FWM) technique in a newly designed HN-UFF without additional pump signals. It is found that even when the input signal frequency spacing is increased beyond 2 THz, DQPSK modulation with carrier-suppressed return-to zero (CSRZ), or CSRZ-DQPSK, gives a better value of flattened conversion efficiency and Q factor. The impact of input power on conversion efficiency and effective flatness is also investigated. The performance parameters, such as conversion efficiency, Q factor, log of bit error rate (BER), received signal power and power penalty, are analysed.