Title :
80 Gb/s multi-wavelength booster amplification in an InGaAs/GaAs quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier
Author :
Schmidt-Langhorst, Carsten ; Meuer, Christian ; Galperin, Andrey ; Schmeckebier, Holger ; Ludwig, Reinhold ; Puris, Dmitriy ; Bimberg, Dieter ; Petermann, Klaus ; Schubert, Colja
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommun., Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
Error-free booster amplification in a 4-mm QD-SOA has been achieved with 1-dB OSNR-penalty up to +15dBm output power for single-channel 80-Gb/s RZ-OOK signals and up to +8.3dBm for 4-channel multi-wavelength (80-Gb/s RZ-OOK + 3 × 40-Gb/s NRZ-OOK) signals on a 5-nm grid.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; amplitude shift keying; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; semiconductor quantum dots; InGaAs-GaAs; NRZ-OOK; OSNR; QD-SOA; RZ-OOK signals; bit rate 120 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; multiwavelength booster amplification; quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier; size 4 mm; Gain; Optical attenuators; Optical noise; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621161
