• DocumentCode
    1796064
  • Title

    Dynamic range improvement through balanced detection for SBS-based high resolution OSAs

  • Author

    Deng Pan ; Changjian Ke ; Xin Zhou ; Deming Liu ; Willner, Alan E.

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Eng. Lab. for Next Generation Internet Access Syst., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    6-10 July 2014
  • Firstpage
    741
  • Lastpage
    742
  • Abstract
    An out-of-band signal components cancellation scheme through balanced detection is proposed for SBS-based OSAs. Accompanied with the nonlinear distortion compensation, the dynamic range of the measured spectra can be improved from ~10 dB to >50 dB.
  • Keywords
    compensation; nonlinear distortion; optical attenuators; optical fibre communication; optical fibre couplers; photodiodes; spectral analysers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; OSA; SBS; balanced detection; balanced photodiode pair; dynamic range improvement; nonlinear distortion compensation; optical attenuator; optical coupler; optical spectrum analyzers; out-of-band signal components cancellation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Distortion measurement; Dynamic range; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical scattering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fibre Technology, 2014 OptoElectronics and Communication Conference and Australian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Melbourne, VIC
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6888253