Reduction of semiconductor optical amplifier induced distortion and crosstalk in a 1.3-μm WDM transport system

Author

Lu, Hai-Han ; Wang, Wen-Jen ; Su, Heng-Sheng ; Wang, Chien-Tang

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. Taipei Univ. of Technol., Taiwan

Volume

15

Issue

5

fYear

2003

fDate

5/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

775

Lastpage

777

Abstract

A four-wavelength 256-QAM wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) semiconductor-optical-amplifier (SOA) amplified transport system using a light injection technique over an 80-km single-mode fiber (SMF) link is proposed and demonstrated. SOA-induced distortion and crosstalk can be reduced by employing the light injection technique, thus system performance can be further improved. Our proposed WDM transport system can transmit 252 256 quadrature amplitude modulation digital channels with a bit-error rate <10/sup -9/. It can be concluded that our light injection technique is a very useful approach for reducing distortion and crosstalk in an SOA amplified WDM transport system.

Keywords

optical crosstalk; optical distortion; optical transmitters; quadrature amplitude modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.3 micron; 80 km; SOA-induced crosstalk; SOA-induced distortion; WDM transport system; bit-error rate; four-wavelength 256-QAM WDM SOA amplified transport system; light injection technique; quadrature amplitude modulation digital channels; single-mode fiber link; Bit error rate; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear distortion; Optical crosstalk; Optical distortion; Optical modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; System performance; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.809946

Filename

1196166