• DocumentCode
    328519
  • Title

    Phase-conjugation characteristics of semiconductor optical amplifiers

  • Author

    Kikuchi, Kazuro ; Lorattanasane, Chaloemphon ; Saito, Ken-ichi

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tokyo Univ., Japan
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    19-19 Sept. 1996
  • Firstpage
    269
  • Abstract
    Phase-conjugation characteristics of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) are investigated experimentally. We find that the carrier-density modulation inside the SOA distorts the phase-conjugated signal. Such distortion can be suppressed by raising the pump power and lowering the signal power. The lower limit of the signal power is, however, determined by the required signal-to-noise ratio of the phase-conjugated signal.
  • Keywords
    carrier density; electro-optical modulation; laser noise; optical noise; optical phase conjugation; optical pumping; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; carrier-density modulation; optical transmitters; phase-conjugated signal; phase-conjugation characteristics; pump power; semiconductor optical amplifiers; signal power; signal-to-noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Oslo, Norway
  • Print_ISBN
    82-423-0418-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    715664