Abstract
We report ultralow-noise transmission over a 102-km single-mode fiber using a purely nonlinear amplification scheme consisting of a second-order distributed Raman amplifier (DRA) and a phase-sensitive amplifier (PSA) based on periodically poled LiNbO3 waveguides. The hybrid DRA/PSA features a broadband gain over the C and L bands and an ultralow-noise advantage, with a less than −6.3 dB effective noise figure in the DRA stage and a 1.6 dB optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) improvement in the PSA stage. Compared with the unamplified link, the OSNR is improved by 10.2 dB for a 20-Gbaud 16QAM signal in the C band, resulting in error-free detection (a bit-error rate of less than 3.8 × 10−3) for the signal with a low link input power of −25 dBm. Mitigation of nonlinear distortion is also achieved by the proposed nonlinear amplified system due to the subsequent PSA.
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