Title :
Travelling wave semiconductor optical amplifier with reduced nonlinear distortions
Author :
Simon, J.C. ; Doussiere, P. ; Lamouler, P. ; Valiente, I.
Author_Institution :
CNET, Lannion
fDate :
1/6/1994 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors propose an all-optical linearisation scheme for suppression of nonlinear distortion in semiconductor optical amplifiers. First experimental results show better than 10dB reduction of second order harmonic distortion of an amplified sinusoidally amplitude modulated signal
Keywords :
nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; semiconductor lasers; all-optical linearisation scheme; amplified sinusoidally amplitude modulated signal; nonlinear distortion; reduced nonlinear distortions; second order harmonic distortion; travelling wave semiconductor optical amplifier;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19940004
