Multicanonical Evaluation of the Tails of the Probability Density Function of Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Output Power Fluctuations

Author

Tromborg, Bjarne ; Reimer, Michael ; Yevick, David

Author_Institution

Dept. of Photonics Eng., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Volume

46

Issue

1

fYear

2010

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

61

Abstract

This paper presents a multicanonical Monte Carlo method for simulating the tails of a probability density function (pdf) of the filtered output power from a semiconductor optical amplifier down to values of the order of 10^-40. The influence of memory effects on the pdf is examined in order to demonstrate the manner in which the calculated pdf approaches the true pdf with increasing integration time. The simulated pdf is shown to be in good agreement with a second-order analytic expression for the pdf.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; fluctuations; semiconductor optical amplifiers; multicanonical Monte Carlo method; power fluctuations; probability density function; second order analytic expression; semiconductor optical amplifier; tail simulation; Fluctuations; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Optical noise; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Probability density function; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tail; Microcanonical Monte Carlo; noise; optical communications; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.2009.2026724

Filename

5350977