Quantum-dot semiconductor optical booster amplifier with ultrafast gain recovery for pattern-effect free amplification of 80 Gb/s RZ-OOK data signals

Author

Schmidt-Langhorst, C. ; Meuer, C. ; Ludwig, R. ; Puris, D. ; Bonk, R. ; Vallaitis, T. ; Bimberg, D. ; Petermann, K. ; Leuthold, J. ; Schubert, Carsten

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommun., Berlin, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We present an InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot semiconductor amplifier with a 90%-10% nonlinear gain recovery time of only 16 ps which enables pattern-effect free amplification of 80 Gb/s RZ-OOK data signals with only 0.3 dB BER penalty.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; amplitude shift keying; error statistics; gallium arsenide; high-speed optical techniques; indium compounds; optical fibre amplifiers; quantum dot lasers; semiconductor quantum dots; BER; InGaAs-GaAs; RZ-OOK data signals; bit error rate; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; nonlinear gain recovery; pattern-effect free amplification; quantum-dot semiconductor optical booster amplifier; time 16 ps; ultrafast gain recovery; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical pumping; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Quantum dots; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Vienna

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5096-1

Type

conf

Filename

5287134