Modeling of optical carrier recovery using four wave mixing technique for binary phase shift keying systems

Abstract

Modern communication networks uses optical fibre extensively. The transport networks are upgrading its capacity continuously to provide the bandwidth requirement of the customer requirements. To provide such an increase in bandwidth, the transmission networks are moving from Amplitude Shift Keying modulation methods to Phase Shift Keying methods. In phase shift keying systems, data reception and regeneration required phase synchronization. This requires original optical carrier phase information. In this paper, we report a model for optical carrier recovery for optical synchronization of a Binary Phase Shift Keying input by exploiting Four Wave Mixing in Highly Non-Linear Fibers. The noise influence from the signal laser for the recovered carrier was analyzed.