Title :
Signal-induced rayleigh noise reduction using gain saturation in an integrated R-EAM-SOA
Author :
MacHale, E.K. ; Talli, G. ; Townsend, P.D. ; Borghesani, A. ; Lealman, I. ; Moodie, D.G. ; Smith, D.W.
Author_Institution :
Photonic Syst. Group, Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork
Abstract :
We demonstrate mitigation of signal-induced Rayleigh beat noise by gain saturation of the SOA element in an integrated R-EAM-SOA operating at 10 Gb/s. The system tolerance to Rayleigh backscattering was increased by 8 dB at 1 dB penalty.
Keywords :
backscatter; optical fibre networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; Rayleigh backscattering; gain saturation; integrated R-EAM-SOA; signal-induced Rayleigh beat noise; signal-induced Rayleigh noise reduction; Equalizers; Monitoring; Noise reduction; Optical fiber networks; Optical receivers; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Service oriented architecture; Time division multiple access; Wavelength division multiplexing; (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.4250) Networks;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2606-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-865-0
