All Optical Vestigial Sideband Generation using counter propagating pumping in Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

Author

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

Author_Institution

Siemens Network SA, Amadora

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Saturation of the SOA with a counter-propagating pump signal was proposed to mimimize the effects of self-gain modulation that occurs in the SOA in a self phase modulation (SPM) setup. This setup is used to convert broadband double sideband signals to the vestigial sideband (VSB) format.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical pumping; optical saturation; self-phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; SOA saturation; broadband double sideband signals; counter propagating pumping; optical vestigial sideband generation; self phase modulation; self-gain modulation; semiconductor optical amplifier; Counting circuits; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical propagation; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386088

Filename

4386088