Impairments in deeply-saturated optical parametric amplifiers for amplitude- and phase-modulated signals.

We measure impairment of on-off-keyed and differential-phase-shift-keyed signals imposed by gain saturation in a fiber parametric amplifier. Phase modulation is observed to be more robust, particularly for deep (15 dB) saturation.

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