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
fDate :
6/15/2016 12:00:00 AM
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"
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2015
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8892
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2015.7340330
