Counter-dithering pump scheme for cascaded degenerate FWM based wavelength converter

We demonstrate counter-dithering of pumps between two cascaded FWM processes for highly-efficient format-independent wavelength conversion. Up-to -1.2dB FWM conversion efficiency is obtained over 32-nm. 86-Gbps DP-QPSK are converted with OSNR penalty below 0.3dB at 10-3 BER.