The Impact of Polarization-Dependent Gain on the Design of Cascaded Semiconductor Optical Amplifier CWDM Systems

Author

Antoniades, N. ; Reichmann, Kenneth C. ; Iannone, Patrick P. ; Frigo, Nicholas J. ; Levine, X. A M ; Roudas, I.

Author_Institution

Phys. Dept., City Univ. of New York, Staten Island, NY

Volume

18

Issue

20

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2099

Lastpage

2101

Abstract

We derive an engineering methodology and study the impact of polarization-dependent gain (PDG) on the design of cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based coarse wavelength-division-multiplexing systems. System specifications can be determined based on receiver optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) requirements and cascaded-SOA OSNR penalty calculations that include a simplified model to calculate PDG statistics

Keywords

light polarisation; optical receivers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; statistical analysis; wavelength division multiplexing; CWDM systems; cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier; coarse wavelength-division-multiplexing; gain statistics; optical receiver; optical signal-to-noise ratio; penalty calculations; polarization-dependent gain; Gain; Noise figure; Optical amplifiers; Optical crosstalk; Optical design; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio; Amplifiers; networks; optical communications; polarization-dependent gain (PDG);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.883187

Filename

1704880