Semiconductor optical amplifiers for microwave photonics links

Author

Boula-Picard, R. ; Bibey, M.-B. ; Vodjdani, N.

Author_Institution

THALES LCR, Orsay, France

fYear

2002

fDate

7-9 Jan. 2002

Firstpage

137

Lastpage

140

Abstract

The influence of saturated Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers "SOA" (classical or gain clamped) on the transmission characteristics of a fibre optical link carrying a microwave signal is presented. SOAs present different behaviour in term of gain, nonlinearity, frequency response and noise in accordance with the modulation frequency of the input signal.

Keywords

frequency response; intermodulation distortion; laser noise; microwave links; microwave photonics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; phase noise; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA frequency response; SOA gain; SOA noise; SOA nonlinearity; fibre optical link; gain clamped SOAs; input signal modulation frequency; microwave photonic links; microwave signal; saturated SOAs; semiconductor optical amplifiers; transmission characteristics; Frequency response; Microwave photonics; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical noise; Optical saturation; Optical signal processing; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2001. MWP '01. 2001 International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7003-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2002.981815

Filename

981815