Title :
Modulation cancellation properties of reflective SOAs
Author :
O´Duill, Sean ; Marazzi, Lucia ; Palolari, Paola ; Koos, C. ; Freude, W. ; Leuthold, Juerg
Author_Institution :
IPQ & IMT, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany
Abstract :
Modulation cancellation and signal inversion are demonstrated within reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers (RSOAs). The effect is useful to implement colorless ONUs where downstream signals need to be erased in order to reuse the carrier for the upstream.
Keywords :
passive optical networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; colorless ONU; downstream signals; modulation cancellation properties; reflective SOA; reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers; signal inversion; Gain; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
