20 December 2019 Experimental demonstration of slicing supercontinuum-based 4.39-bit all-optical quantization
Shipei Jing, Rui Ma, Kuiru Wang, Jinhui Yuan, Tonggang Zhao, Binbin Yan, Xinzhu Sang, Chongxiu Yu
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Abstract

We demonstrate an all-optical quantization scheme by slicing the supercontinuum (SC) generated in the normal dispersion region of a highly nonlinear fiber. The −20  dB bandwidth of the SC is broadened from 12.9 to 49.7 nm when input average power varies from 0.062 to 0.692 mW, which is used for realizing subsequent quantization. In addition, in order to evaluate the system performance, we have calculated the values of differential nonlinear error, integral nonlinear error, and effective number of bit from the experimental results as 0.471 least significant bit (LSB), 0.519 LSB, and 4.39 bit, respectively.

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Shipei Jing, Rui Ma, Kuiru Wang, Jinhui Yuan, Tonggang Zhao, Binbin Yan, Xinzhu Sang, and Chongxiu Yu "Experimental demonstration of slicing supercontinuum-based 4.39-bit all-optical quantization," Optical Engineering 58(12), 126102 (20 December 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.12.126102
Received: 21 July 2019; Accepted: 9 December 2019; Published: 20 December 2019
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KEYWORDS
Quantization

Signal to noise ratio

Dispersion

Optical filters

Telecommunications

Optical communications

Complex systems

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