• DocumentCode
    3863044
  • Title

    Comparison of gain compression in quantum-dot SOAs for multichannel amplification

  • Author

    Norihiko Ninomiya;Motoharu Matsuura

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Communication Engineering and Informatics, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    6/15/2016 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We investigated the gain compression between two optical signals with different channel spacing in a conventional semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and quantum-dot SOA (QD-SOA). In the QD-SOA, the inhomogeneous gain broadening effect was clearly observed.
  • Keywords
    "Semiconductor optical amplifiers","Passive optical networks","Channel spacing","Wavelength division multiplexing","Optical attenuators","Optical wavelength conversion","Optical pulses"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2015
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2166-8892
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2015.7340330
  • Filename
    7340330