Experimental investigation at 10 Gb/s of the noise suppression capabilities in a pass-through configuration in SOA-based interferometric structures

Author

Wolfson, D. ; Fjelde, T. ; Kloch, A. ; Janz, C. ; Coquelin, A. ; Guillemot, I. ; Gaborit, F. ; Poingt, F. ; Renaud, M.

Author_Institution

Rws. Centre COM, Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Volume

12

Issue

7

fYear

2000

fDate

7/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

837

Lastpage

839

Abstract

We experimentally investigate a pass-through scheme for all-optical noise suppression in a SOA-based interferometric structure at 10 Gb/s. An input power dynamic range of /spl sim/8 dB as well as a noise suppression capability of /spl sim/4.5 dB has been demonstrated. Furthermore, the transmission properties have been investigated showing a small pre-amplified penalty of /spl sim/0.3 dB after transmission over 31 km of standard single mode fiber.

Keywords

Michelson interferometers; high-speed optical techniques; laser noise; light interferometers; optical repeaters; semiconductor device noise; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 10 Gbit/s; SOA-based interferometric structure; SOA-based interferometric structures; all-optical noise suppression; input power dynamic range; noise suppression capabilities; noise suppression capability; pass-through configuration; pass-through scheme; small pre-amplified penalty; standard single mode fiber; transmission properties; Arm; Dynamic range; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase shifting interferometry; Repeaters; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.853517

Filename

853517