Semiconductor optical amplifiers: recent advances and applications

A Sobhanan, A Anthur, S O'Duill, M Pelusi… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Owing to advances in fabrication technology and device design, semiconductor optical
amplifiers (SOAs) are evolving as a promising candidate for future optical coherent …

Distributed Raman amplification for fiber nonlinearity compensation in a mid-link optical phase conjugation system

M Tan, P Rosa, TT Nguyen, MAZ Al-Khateeb, MA Iqbal… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we review different designs of distributed Raman amplifiers which have been
proposed to minimize the signal power profile asymmetry in mid-link optical phase …

Information rates in Kerr nonlinearity limited optical fiber communication systems

T Xu, NA Shevchenko, Y Zhang, C Jin, J Zhao, T Liu - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Achievable information rates of optical communication systems are inherently limited by
nonlinear distortions due to the Kerr effect occurred in optical fibres. These nonlinear …

Dispersion and nonlinearity distortion compensation of the QPSK/16QAM signals using optical phase conjugation in nonlinear SOAs

A Sobhanan, LN Venkatasubramani… - IEEE Photonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We experimentally demonstrate the simultaneous compensation of both dispersion and
nonlinear effects in a 100 km optical fiber link using optical phase conjugation of a 21 GB …

Enhanced nonlinearity compensation efficiency of optical phase conjugation system

AAI Ali, M Al-Khateeb, T Zhang, F Ferreira… - Optical Fiber …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate enhanced efficiency of nonlinearity compensation, by 13dB,
when deploying mid-link optical phase conjugation in discretely-amplified systems. Our …

Bandwidth Extension in a Mid-Link Optical Phase Conjugation

P Rosa, GR Martella, M Tan - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we investigate various designs of distributed Raman amplifier (DRA) to extend
amplification bandwidth in mid-link optical phase conjugation (OPC) systems and compare …

Record bandwidth waveband-shift-free optical phase conjugation in nonlinear fiber optical loop mirror

V Gordienko, S Boscolo, M Bastamova, AD Ellis… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We present a novel configuration for broadband, wavelength-shift-free optical phase
conjugation (OPC) utilizing four-wave mixing in a nonlinear fiber optical loop mirror (NOLM) …

Kernel adaptive filtering-based phase noise compensation for pilot-free optical phase conjugated coherent systems

S Boscolo, TT Nguyen, AAI Ali, S Sygletos, AD Ellis - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We propose a kernel-based adaptive filtering method to suppress the phase noise (PN)
arising from small deviations from ideal counter-phasing in the dual-pump fibre-based …

Performance Evaluation of Highly Nonlinear Fiber (HNLF) Based Optical Phase Conjugation (OPC) in Long Haul Transmission of 640 Gbps 16-QAM CO-OFDM

J Wang, Y Du, C Liang, Z Li, J Fang - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper presents the quantitative measurement through an experimental test of 640 Gbps
16-QAM coherent-optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) over 800 …

Kernel-based learning-aided phase noise compensation in dual-pump optical phase conjugation coherent system

TT Nguyen, S Boscolo, AAI Ali, M Tan… - 2021 Optical Fiber …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We deploy kernel-based time-series prediction to suppress the phase noise induced by
small deviations from ideal pump counter-phasing in a dual-pump optical phase conjugation …