Title :
Reduction of interferometric crosstalk induced penalty using a saturated semiconductor optical amplifier
Author :
Liu, Fenghai ; Xueyan Zhang ; Poulsen, Henrik N. ; Wolfson, David ; Jeppesen, Palle
Author_Institution :
Res. Center COM, Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract :
We successfully demonstrated that a simple saturated SOA could be used to reduce the impact from the interferometric crosstalk at 2.5 and 10 Gb/s. It is shown that 4 dB more crosstalk power can be tolerated at 1 dB penalty by using the SOA. This will greatly reduce the crosstalk requirement on components, especially these used in cascade in large-scale transparent optical networks
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; optical crosstalk; optical saturation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 2.5 Gbit/s; WDM; crosstalk induced penalty reduction; eye diagrams; fast gain saturation; interferometric crosstalk induced penalty; large-scale transparent optical networks; saturated SOA; waveform distortion; Optical crosstalk; Optical distortion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical saturation; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 2000 Annual Meeting. LEOS 2000. 13th Annual Meeting. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Rio Grande
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5947-X
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2000.890783
