Title :
Multiwaveguide SOA for increased saturation power without noise penalty
Author :
Dagens, B. ; Emery, J.Y. ; Janz, C.
Author_Institution :
Alcatel Corp. Res. Inst., Marcoussis, France
fDate :
3/18/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors present a new semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) concept. The multiwaveguide SOA (MWG-SOA), which associates N parallel SOAs and yields a 10 log(N) dB saturation power increase without noise penalty, for the same small-signal gain as each single SOA. The MWG-SOA concept is experimentally validated
Keywords :
semiconductor optical amplifiers; multimode interference couplers; multiwaveguide SOA; saturation power improvement; semiconductor optical amplifier;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19990104
