A polarization multiplexing technique to mitigate WDM crosstalk in SOAs

Author

Srivastava, A.K. ; Banerjee, S. ; Eichenbaum, B.R. ; Wolf, C. ; Sun, Y. ; Sulhoff, J.W. ; Chraplyvy, A.R.

Author_Institution

Crawford Hill Lab., Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

12

Issue

10

fYear

2000

Firstpage

1415

Lastpage

1416

Abstract

Crosstalk arising from gain saturation effects in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA´s) causes major system impairments in wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) transmission of multiple optical channels. We propose a novel polarization multiplexing technique to mitigate the gain saturation effects in SOA´s and demonstrate error-free WDM transmission over a 45 km metro-like fiber link for a two-channel case using a SOA.

Keywords

optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 45 km; SOA gain saturation effects; WDM crosstalk mitigation; error-free WDM transmission; metro-like fiber link; multiple optical channels; polarization multiplexing technique; semiconductor optical amplifiers; system impairment; wavelength-division-multiplexed transmission; Crosstalk; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical saturation; Optical transmitters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.883848

Filename

883848