Experimental reduction of dispersion-induced effects in microwave/millimeter-wave optical systems employing SOA boosters

Author

Ramos, F. ; Herrera, J. ; Marti, J.

Author_Institution

Fibre-Radio Group, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

20-24 May 2001

Firstpage

77

Abstract

A novel approach to reduce the dispersion induced effects in microwave/millimeter-wave optical links based on the combination of chirp generated by semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA´s) and fiber-induced self-phase modulation has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The results show that the dispersion-induced RF carrier suppression effect may be alleviated by more than 20 dB when the SOA is operated under saturation. However, the SOA input power must be carefully controlled in order to avoid significant nonlinear distortion.

Keywords

chirp modulation; fading; harmonic distortion; intermodulation distortion; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical transmitters; self-phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; RF carrier suppression effect; SOA boosters; chirp generation; dispersion induced effects reduction; fading; fiber-induced self-phase modulation; harmonic distortion; intermodulation distortion; microwave optical links; millimeter-wave optical links; saturation; Chirp modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical saturation; Optical transmitters; Radio frequency; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2001 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6538-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2001.966843

Filename

966843