Measurements of harmonic distortion produced by a saturated optical amplifier with a nonlinear microwave network analyzer

Author

Vael, Philip ; Rolain, Yves ; Barel, Alain ; Bliki, Andy

Author_Institution

Vrije Univ., Brussels, Belgium

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

18-21 May 1998

Firstpage

581

Abstract

This paper presents a method to measure the harmonic distortion produced by optical amplifiers. Therefore, a recently developed Nonlinear-Network Measurement System has been extended with a laser source and a detector. A proposal for shifting the absolute calibration plane from the electrical to the optical plane is given. The experimental results show that the saturated optical amplifier does not significantly increase the harmonic distortion of the applied modulated optical input signal

Keywords

calibration; electric distortion measurement; harmonic distortion; microwave measurement; network analysers; optical fibre testing; optical saturation; absolute calibration plane; detector; harmonic distortion; laser source; modulated optical input signal; nonlinear microwave network analyzer; nonlinear-network measurement; saturated optical amplifier; Distortion measurement; Harmonic distortion; Laser noise; Optical amplifiers; Optical distortion; Optical modulation; Optical saturation; Proposals; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1998. IMTC/98. Conference Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

St. Paul, MN

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4797-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.1998.679858

Filename

679858