DocumentCode
1553012
Title
Intensity stabilisation of spectrum-sliced Gaussian radiation based on amplitude squeezing using semiconductor optical amplifiers with gain saturation
Author
Katagiri, Y. ; Suzuki, K. ; Aida, K.
Author_Institution
NTT Telecommun. Energy Labs., Tokyo, Japan
Volume
35
Issue
16
fYear
1999
fDate
8/5/1999 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1362
Lastpage
1364
Abstract
A method is proposed for reducing the intrinsic intensity noise of spectrum-sliced wideband Gaussian radiation based on the amplitude-squeezing effect of semiconductor optical amplifiers in a gain-saturated state. The effect was confirmed by an experimental demonstration which showed that the stabilised sliced light had a Poisson-like probability-density distribution while the simple slice had a nearly-geometric distribution
Keywords
optical squeezing; optical transmitters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Poisson-like probability-density distribution; amplitude squeezing; gain saturation; intensity stabilisation; nearly-geometric distribution; semiconductor optical amplifiers; spectrum-sliced Gaussian radiation;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19990919
Filename
790054
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