title: Polarization insensitive all-optical up-conversion for ROF systems based on parallel pump FWM in a SOA.
abstract: We have proposed and experimentally investigated polarization insensitive all-optical up-conversion for ROF system based on FWM in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The parallel pump is generated based on odd-order optical sidebands and carrier suppression using an external intensity modulator and a cascaded optical filter. Therefore, the two pumps are always parallel and phase locked, which makes system polarization insensitive. After FWM in a SOA and optical filtering, similar to single sideband (SSB) 40 GHz optical millimeter-wave is generated only using 10 GHz RF as local oscillator (LO). The receiver sensitivity at a BER of 10(-9) for the up-converted signals is -28.4 dBm. The power penalty for the up-converted downstream signals is smaller than 1 dBm after 20 km SSMF-28 transmission.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Micro/Nano Opto-Electronic Devices of Ministry of Education and School of Computer and Communication, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Ze
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Zizheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Shuangchun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.forename: Jianguo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D000669:Amplifiers, Electronic; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005374:Filtration / Q000295:instrumentation*; D053844:Lasers, Solid-State; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity