Analysis of operating characteristics of TOADs using gain saturation and nonlinear gain in SOAs

Author

Tang, J.M. ; Spencer, P.S. ; Shore, K.A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Syst., Univ. of Wales, Bangor, UK

Volume

145

Issue

1

fYear

1998

fDate

2/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

87

Abstract

A numerical study has been undertaken of the operating characteristics of teraherz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD) devices, taking into account gain saturation and nonlinear gain compression of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) for two modes of operation. Attention is given to the influence of nonlinear gain on the output behaviour and to the relation between the switching threshold energy and the operating parameters of TOAD devices. It is predicted that a switching energy of 0.1 pJ can be achieved in an optimised configuration

Keywords

demultiplexing; demultiplexing equipment; electro-optical switches; laser modes; optical communication equipment; optical saturation; optimisation; semiconductor lasers; symmetry; 0.1 pJ; SOAs; TOADs; electro optical switches; gain saturation; laser modes; nonlinear gain; nonlinear gain compression; operating characteristics; operating parameters; optical communications equipment; optimised configuration; output behaviour; semiconductor optical amplifiers; switching energy; switching threshold energy; teraherz optical asymmetric demultiplexer;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Optoelectronics, IEE Proceedings -

Publisher

iet

ISSN

1350-2433

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/ip-opt:19981343

Filename

668013