DocumentCode
2678102
Title
The effect of amplified spontaneous emission on wavelength conversion by cross gain modulation in a semiconductor optical amplifier
Author
Pegg, S.I. ; Fice, M.J. ; Adams, M.J. ; Hadjifotiou, A.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Phys., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK
fYear
1998
fDate
36101
Firstpage
42522
Lastpage
42525
Abstract
Broadband amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) is added to the pump signal of a wavelength converter using cross gain modulation (XGM) in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) to simulate it having passed through several erbium doped fibre amplifiers (EDFAs). Improvements in system performance are observed when the SOA is highly saturated, and these results are mirrored in a simple steady-state nonlinear gain SOA model
Keywords
electro-optical modulation; EDFAs; amplified spontaneous emission; broadband amplified spontaneous emission; cross gain modulation; erbium doped fibre amplifiers; highly saturate SOA; pump signal; semiconductor optical amplifier; steady-state nonlinear gain SOA model; system performance; wavelength conversion; wavelength converter;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
New Developments in Optical Amplifiers (Ref. No. 1998/492), IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location
London
Type
conf
DOI
10.1049/ic:19980916
Filename
755099
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