• DocumentCode
    1489895
  • Title

    Improvement of cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier gates by using holding light injection

  • Author

    Yu, Jianjun ; Jeppesen, Palle

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Center COM, Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
  • Volume
    19
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    5/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    614
  • Lastpage
    623
  • Abstract
    The cascadability of semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) gates by using holding light injection is numerically and experimentally investigated. Our experimental results show that the signal bit error rate after two cascaded SOA gates will be larger than 10-9 without holding light injection; however 11 SOA gates can be cascaded with holding light injection. The results show that the number of cascaded SOA gates by using holding light injection can be strongly increased
  • Keywords
    laser theory; optical transmitters; semiconductor device models; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; cascaded SOA gates; cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier gates; holding light injection; signal bit error rate; Clamps; Frequency; Optical modulation; Optical saturation; Quantum cascade lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal processing; Stimulated emission; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Lightwave Technology, Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0733-8724
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/50.923474
  • Filename
    923474