• DocumentCode
    3216733
  • Title

    Reduction of pattern-dependent amplitude modulation for RZ data in semiconductor optical amplifier with delay interferometer

  • Author

    Zoiros, K.E. ; Janer, C.L. ; Connelly, M.J. ; Dimitriadou, E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    18-20 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    The pattern-dependent amplitude modulation in a semiconductor optical amplifier driven by return-to-zero (RZ) data is experimentally shown to be reduced using a delay interferometer (DI). Pulses of this format are amplified with far better performance than without the DI, as quantified by the measured reduction of the amplitude modulation from 1.6 dB to 0.29 dB and the enhancement of the eye diagram extinction ratio from 10.5 dB to 13.1 dB.
  • Keywords
    amplitude modulation; light interferometers; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; delay interferometer; eye diagram extinction ratio; pattern-dependent amplitude modulation; return-to-zero data; semiconductor optical amplifier; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical pulses; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2012 8th International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Poznan
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1472-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CSNDSP.2012.6292651
  • Filename
    6292651