• DocumentCode
    3079718
  • Title

    Applications of semiconductor optical amplifiers

  • Author

    Webb, R.P. ; Dailey, James M. ; Manning, R.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    2-6 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    825
  • Lastpage
    826
  • Abstract
    All-optical processing of phase encoded signals with nonlinear semiconductor optical amplifiers offers potential advantages. As examples, we demonstrate QPSK to 8PSK conversion and decomposition of QPSK to two BPSK outputs at new wavelengths.
  • Keywords
    quadrature phase shift keying; semiconductor optical amplifiers; signal processing; 8PSK; BPSK; QPSK; SOA; nonlinear semiconductor optical amplifiers; phase encoded signals all-optical processing; quadrature phase shift keying; Frequency conversion; Optical mixing; Optical signal processing; Phase shift keying; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
  • Conference_Location
    Busan
  • ISSN
    2166-8884
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0976-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2166-8884
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2012.6276649
  • Filename
    6276649