In-line saturable absorber in transmission systems with cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Bakonyi, Z. ; Onishchukov, G. ; Knoll, C. ; Golles, M. ; Lederer, F. ; Ludwig, R.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Angewandte Phys., Friedrich-Schiller-Univ., Jena, Germany

Volume

12

Issue

5

fYear

2000

fDate

5/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

570

Lastpage

572

Abstract

A significant improvement of high bit-rate RZ transmission system performance was demonstrated by employing an in-line saturable absorber. The basic features of such a system are discussed. Error free 5-Gb/s single channel transmission over 30000 km has been obtained at 1.3-μm in a fiber loop setup. The saturable absorber was fabricated directly in the semiconductor optical amplifier by ion-implantation.

Keywords

ion implantation; optical repeaters; optical saturable absorption; semiconductor optical amplifiers; superradiance; telecommunication channels; 1.3 mum; 30000 km; 5 Gbit/s; cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers; error free Gb/s single channel transmission; fiber loop setup; high bit-rate RZ transmission system performance; in-line saturable absorber; ion-implantation; saturable absorber; semiconductor optical amplifier; transmission systems; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical saturation; Optical solitons; Optical transmitters; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.841289

Filename

841289