Improved bit-error-rate performance in frequency conversion of high-bit-rate data based on cross gain compression in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Shtaif, M. ; Eisenstein, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel

Volume

8

Issue

11

fYear

1996

Firstpage

1474

Lastpage

1476

Abstract

We describe a detailed calculation of the bit-error-rate performance of an optical frequency converter based on cross gain saturation in a semiconductor optical amplifier. Performance limits related to the slow-gain dynamics of the amplifier, as well as to noise, are presented and a modification to the detection system based on an adaptive decision threshold level that corrects for the performance deterioration due to dynamical effects is proposed.

Keywords

dynamics; error analysis; laser noise; laser theory; optical frequency conversion; semiconductor device noise; semiconductor lasers; adaptive decision threshold level; bit-error-rate performance; cross gain compression; cross gain saturation; detection system; dynamical effects; high-bit-rate data; optical frequency conversion; optical frequency converter; performance deterioration; performance limits; semiconductor optical amplifiers; slow-gain dynamics; Frequency conversion; Noise level; Optical amplifiers; Optical frequency conversion; Optical noise; Optical saturation; Performance gain; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.541554

Filename

541554