Detailed experimental and theoretical investigation and comparison of the cascadability of semiconductor optical amplifier gates and gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier gates

Author

Danielsen, S.L. ; Hansen, P.B. ; Wolfson, D. ; Mikkelsen, B. ; Stubkjaer, K.E. ; Emery, J.Y. ; Pommereau, F. ; Renaud, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electromagn. Syst., Tech. Univ. Lyngby, Denmark

fYear

1998

fDate

22-27 Feb. 1998

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

42

Abstract

Summary form only given. Here, a detailed investigation of the cascadability of gain clamped semiconductor optical amplifiers (GC-SOAs) is presented and compared to that of conventional SOAs for different bit rates. The analysis is both theoretical and experimental and shows that at 2.5 Gbit/s more than 30 GC-SOAs can be cascaded while only seven conventional SOAs (@1-dB penalty).

Keywords

semiconductor lasers; 2.5 Gbit/s; bit rates; dB penalty; gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier gates; optical transmitters; semiconductor optical amplifier gate cascadability; Crosstalk; Degradation; Dynamic range; Extinction ratio; Gain measurement; Power measurement; Power semiconductor switches; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Telecommunication switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 1998. OFC '98., Technical Digest

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-521-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1998.657187

Filename

657187