Title :
SOA-based regenerative amplification of phase noise degraded DPSK signals
Author :
Devgan, P.S. ; Shin, M. ; Grigoryan, V.S. ; Lasri, J. ; Kumar, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA
Abstract :
SOA-based regenerative amplification of phase noise degraded DPSK signals is demonstrated for a single and two non-demultiplexed channels. Q-factor improvement is 1.6 dB in the single channel and about 0.8 dB in the two channel regime.
Keywords :
Q-factor; differential phase shift keying; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; phase noise; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; Q-factor; SOA-based regenerative amplification; WDM channels; amplified spontaneous emission; fiber nonlinearity; nondemultiplexed channels; optical fiber communication; phase modulator imperfections; phase noise degraded DPSK signals; semiconductor optical regenerative amplifier; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Degradation; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Phase noise; Sagnac interferometers; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-783-0
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2005.193212
