Nonlinear phase noise reduction for 20-Gbit/s NRZ-QPSK signals using InP on SOI photonic crystal nanocavity

Trung Hien Nguyen (1) , M Gay (1) , L Bramerie (1) , Kevin Lenglé (1) , Christophe Peucheret (1) , Olivier Sentieys (2) , Jean-Claude Simon (1) , A Bazin (3) , R Raj (3) , F Raineri (4, 3)

1 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
2 CAIRN - Energy Efficient Computing ArchItectures with Embedded Reconfigurable Resources
3 LPN - Laboratoire de photonique et de nanostructures
4 UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7

All-optical nonlinear phase noise reduction using an InP-over-SOI PhC nanocavity is experimentally demonstrated for 20-Gbit/s NRZ-QPSK signals. The phase-preserving intensity-limiting function results in an OSNR penalty reduction of 3.5 dB at a BER of 10-3 .

Mots clés: OCIS codes: (2305298) Photonic crystals; (0601660) Coherent communications; (0602330) Fiber optics communications; (0704340) Nonlinear optical signal processing

Domaines: Optique / photonique; Optique [physics.optics]

Trung Hien Nguyen, M Gay, L Bramerie, Kevin Lenglé, Christophe Peucheret, et al.. Nonlinear phase noise reduction for 20-Gbit/s NRZ-QPSK signals using InP on SOI photonic crystal nanocavity. Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2015), Mar 2015, Los Angeles, California, USA, United States. pp.Tu2F.3, ⟨10.1364/OFC.2015.Tu2F.3⟩. ⟨hal-01136435⟩