• DocumentCode
    3153255
  • Title

    Noise properties of semiconductor waveguides with alternating sections of saturable gain and absorption

  • Author

    Öhman, Filip ; Bischoff, Svend ; Tromborg, Bjarne ; Mork, Jesper

  • Author_Institution
    COM, Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    22-27 June 2003
  • Firstpage
    192
  • Abstract
    We investigate the dynamical noise properties of saturable semiconductor devices for optical signal processing. A trade-off between noise redistribution and extinction ratio improvement has to be made for all-optical regeneration.
  • Keywords
    optical information processing; optical noise; optical repeaters; optical saturable absorption; optical waveguides; semiconductor optical amplifiers; extinction ratio; noise property; noise redistribution; optical regeneration; optical signal processing; saturable absorption; saturable gain; saturable semiconductor device; semiconductor waveguide; Absorption; Frequency; Low-frequency noise; Noise figure; Optical noise; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Semiconductor waveguides; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7734-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1312253
  • Filename
    1312253