All-Optical Format Conversion for Rectangular 8QAM Signals Based on Phase-Sensitive Amplification and Nonlinear Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

Qiankun Li; Xiongwei Yang; Huashun Wen; Yameng Li; Qi Xu; Jiali Yang; Pengfei Xu; Huajun Yang

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2024.3361503

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2024)

All-Optical Format Conversion for Rectangular 8QAM Signals Based on Phase-Sensitive Amplification and Nonlinear Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

Qiankun Li,
Xiongwei Yang,
Huashun Wen,
Yameng Li,
Qi Xu,
Jiali Yang,
Pengfei Xu,
Huajun Yang

Affiliations

Qiankun Li: ORCiD; School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Xiongwei Yang: ORCiD; School of Information and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Huashun Wen: ORCiD; Institute of Intelligent Photonics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Yameng Li: School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Qi Xu: School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
Jiali Yang: School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China
Pengfei Xu: The Fifth Research Institute of Electronics, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Guangzhou, China
Huajun Yang: ORCiD; School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2024.3361503
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 16, no. 3
pp. 1 – 9

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An all-optical format conversion (AOFC) scheme for the input 30 Gbit/s rectangular 8-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (8QAM) signal is proposed and numerically investigated based on phase-sensitive amplification (PSA) and nonlinear Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). Firstly, the input rectangular 8QAM signal is orthogonal decomposed into the in-phase and quadrature components based on PSA, respectively. The in-phase component is the 4-ary amplitude and phase shift keying (4APSK) signal and the quadrature component is the binary phase shift keying (BPSK) signal. Secondly, the converted 4APSK signal is transmitted into one piece of highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF) to obtain the phase-distorted two-amplitude and two-phase (2A-2P) signal based on the self-phase modulation (SPM) effect. After adjusting the power of the 2A-2P signal, it is injected into one nonlinear MZI to eliminate the amplitude difference of the inner and the outer rings of the 2A-2P signal. The 2A-2P signal can be converted into the regular quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) signal by the nonlinear MZI with phase preservation. Thirdly, the converted BPSK and QPSK signals are coherently superposed in one 3-dB optical coupler (OC) to get the aggregated rectangular 8QAM signal and other types of 8QAM signals. The proposed scheme can also be extended to realize the AOFC from the 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM) signal to two QPSK signals. The constellation diagrams, amplitude and phase histograms, error vector magnitude (EVM) and bit error rate (BER) of the relevant optical signals are measured to evaluate the system performance. The proposed scheme can be equipped with the optical gateway to enable all-optical interconnection of optical networks with different modulation formats.

Published in IEEE Photonics Journal

ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
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