Title :
Noise performance of semiconductor optical amplifiers
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Microwave Commun., Tech. Univ. Budapest, Hungary
Abstract :
An experimental and theoretical study is presented for the transmission and noise characteristics of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). This device is very relevant in the novel optical networks. So the gain and noise performance are important in all the linear and nonlinear regimes. The paper exhibits the main SOA characteristics which were also measured.
Keywords :
light transmission; optical communication equipment; optical noise; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; gain performance; noise performance; novel optical networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; transmission characteristics; Optical amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Spontaneous emission; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
EUROCON'2001, Trends in Communications, International Conference on.
Conference_Location :
Bratislava, Slovakia
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6490-2
DOI :
10.1109/EURCON.2001.937788
