Title :
Technique to compensate waveform distortion in a gain-saturated semiconductor optical amplifier using a semiconductor saturable absorber
Author_Institution :
NTT Labs., Kanagawa, Japan
fDate :
2/19/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A technique to compensate waveform distortion induced in a gain-saturated semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is proposed and demonstrated. A saturable absorber, which is actually an SOA biased below the transparency current, is placed after an SOA. The loss dynamics of the absorber compensate the SOA gain dynamics and a less distorted signal can be output
Keywords :
compensation; laser noise; optical saturable absorption; semiconductor lasers; SOA gain dynamics; gain-saturated semiconductor optical amplifier; loss dynamics; semiconductor saturable absorber; transparency current; waveform distortion compensation;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19980297
