Crosstalk and its power penalty in multichannel transmission due to gain saturation in a semiconductor laser amplifier

Author

Inoue, Kyo

Author_Institution

NTT Lab., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

7

Issue

7

fYear

1989

fDate

7/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1118

Lastpage

1124

Abstract

A theoretical study of channel crosstalk due to gain saturation in a laser amplifier in multichannel transmission is discussed. When the amplifier is gain-saturated, the gain of any channel is influenced by the light intensity of the other channels, which causes channel crosstalk in intensity-modulated multiplexing transmission. On-off-keying modulation systems with more than two channels are discussed. Considering the probability distribution, the power penalty due to crosstalk is presented for practical system design. Calculated examples reveal that the power penalty is dependent on both the level of gain saturation and the number of multiplexed channels

Keywords

crosstalk; multiplexing; optical communication; optical modulation; optical saturation; probability; semiconductor junction lasers; channel crosstalk; gain saturation; intensity-modulated multiplexing transmission; light intensity; multichannel transmission; multiplexed channels; on-off keying modulation; optical communication; optical modulation; power penalty; probability distribution; semiconductor laser amplifier; Crosstalk; Equations; Frequency; Optical amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical propagation; Power amplifiers; Probability distribution; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.29639

Filename

29639