• DocumentCode
    378478
  • Title

    Reduction of waveform distortion in a semiconductor optical amplifier using internal birefringence and slope filtering

  • Author

    Cai, Wenshan ; Dong, Yi ; Zou, Mingyuan ; Zhang, Qi ; Chen, Minghua ; Xie, Shizhong

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    404
  • Abstract
    A novel method to suppress the waveform distortion in SOAs is proposed and experimented. The results show that the signal distortion and pattern effect are reduced significantly and over 5 dB expansion of input dynamic range is achieved.
  • Keywords
    birefringence; optical filters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; input dynamic range; internal birefringence; pattern effect; semiconductor optical amplifier; signal distortion; slope filtering; waveform distortion; Birefringence; Costs; Laser feedback; Optical distortion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Performance gain; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tellurium;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6705-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2001.989687
  • Filename
    989687