Comparison of DSF- and SOA-based phase conjugators employing noise-suppressing fiber

Author

Geiger, H. ; Set, S.Y. ; Laming, R.I. ; Cole, M.J. ; Reekie, L.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

1997

Firstpage

150

Lastpage

151

Abstract

In this paper, semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)- and dispersion shifted fibre (DSF)-based conjugators are compared using identical fiber-grating-based filter networks and l0-Gbit/s nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) intensity-modulated data. We believe we report for the first time the use of fiber gratings for efficient ASE filtering and signal extraction. We identify ASE from the amplifiers, rather than the conjugation efficiency, as the limitation to phase conjugation in both approaches

Keywords

compensation; laser noise; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical phase conjugation; semiconductor lasers; stimulated emission; DSF-based phase conjugators; Gbit/s nonreturn-to-zero intensity-modulated data; SOA-based phase conjugators; conjugation efficiency; efficient ASE filtering; fiber gratings; fiber-grating-based filter networks; noise-suppressing fiber; phase conjugation; signal extraction; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Digital filters; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Gratings; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Phase noise; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

1-55752-480-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1997.719771

Filename

719771