• DocumentCode
    1583873
  • Title

    Impact of alfa-factor on SOA dynamic range for 20 GBd BPSK, QPSK and 16-QAM Signals

  • Author

    Bonk, R. ; Huber, G. ; Vallaitis, T. ; Schmogrow, R. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Koos, C. ; Freude, W. ; Leuthold, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Photonics & Quantum Electron., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol. (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Impact of SOA α-factor on dynamic range limitation decreases for higher-order modulation formats leading to undistinguishable performances of bulk and QD SOAs. Results are supported by experiments at 20 GBd BPSK, QPSK and 16-QAM.
  • Keywords
    quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 16-QAM; BPSK; QPSK; SOA; alfa-factor; dynamic range limitation; higher-order modulation formats; Binary phase shift keying; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical modulation; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0213-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5875298