Effects of Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Phase Distortion in Radio Over Fiber Signals

Author

Di Bartolo, S. ; Teixeira, A. ; Beleffi, G. M Tosi ; Curti, F.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Tor Vergata, Rome

Volume

3

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

261

Lastpage

264

Abstract

In this paper the effects boosting a phase modulated radio over fiber signal with a semiconductor optical amplifier are analyzed. The resulting distortion is characterized in the case of a single radio over fiber signal or in presence of an amplitude modulated signal.

Keywords

amplitude modulation; nonlinear optics; optical modulation; optical transmitters; phase modulation; radio-over-fibre; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA nonlinearity; amplitude modulated signal; boosting effects; phase distortion; phase modulation; radio-over-fiber signal; semiconductor optical amplifier; Chirp modulation; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Phase distortion; Phase modulation; Quadrature phase shift keying; RF signals; Radio frequency; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; 3G; chirp; cross gain modulation; cross-phase modulation; radio over fiber; self-phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength division multiplexing;

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.2007.4296294

Filename

4296294