Influence of SOA based devices on optical single sideband signals

Author

Silveira, Tiago ; Teixeira, António ; Ferreira, Ana ; Monteiro, Paulo ; André, Paulo

Author_Institution

Siemens S.A., Amadora, Portugal

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

3-7 July 2005

Firstpage

234

Abstract

Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) have been found to be one of the most attractive solutions to overcome the electrical bottleneck in optical networks. However, the non-linearities of SOA based devices may be harmful to optical modulation formats, especially to the ones that use phase modulation. Based on experimental tests performed at 10 Gb/s we discuss the consequences of SOA based devices on optical single sideband signals. The tested devices were: an amplifier, wavelength converter and a 2R regenerator.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA based devices; optical fibre amplifier; optical modulation formats; optical networks; optical single sideband signals; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength converter; Optical amplifiers; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Performance evaluation; Phase modulation; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2005, Proceedings of 2005 7th International Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9236-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2005.1506141

Filename

1506141