Evaluation and Optimization of SOA-based UNI Q-Factor

Author

Zoiros, K.E. ; Botsiaris, C. ; Chasioti, R. ; Koukourlis, C.S.

Author_Institution

Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Xanthi

Volume

4

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

271

Lastpage

274

Abstract

The performance of the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI) gated by an ultra-high speed pseudorandom binary sequence is theoretically analyzed using a comprehensive model developed for this purpose. By conducting numerical simulation, the impact of the SOA and input data critical parameters on the Q-factor is thoroughly investigated and assessed enabling to extract useful design rules for their proper selection so as to optimize this performance metric and ensure error-free operation.

Keywords

Q-factor; binary sequences; high-speed optical techniques; light interferometers; nonlinear optics; optical switches; random sequences; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; UNI Q-factor; all-optical switches; numerical simulation; semiconductor optical amplifier; ultra-high speed pseudorandom binary sequence; ultrafast nonlinear interferometer; Binary sequences; Data mining; Design optimization; Error-free operation; Measurement; Numerical simulation; Optical interferometry; Performance analysis; Q factor; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Q-factor; all-optical signal processing; all-optical switching; numerical simulation; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296397

Filename

4296397