Title :
Ultra-wideband pulse generation based on cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers
Author :
Yuan Yu ; Jianji Dong ; Xinliang Zhang
Author_Institution :
Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
fDate :
Nov. 5 2011-Dec. 7 2011
Abstract :
A pair of polarity-reversed doublet pulses is generated based on a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) and two cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). The UWB polarity is controlled by adjusting the bias voltage of Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM).
Keywords :
light polarisation; optical pulse generation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; MZM; Mach-Zehnder modulator; SOA; UWB polarity; bias voltage; cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier; polarity-reversed doublet pulse; ultra-wideband pulse generation; Ultra-wideband (UWB); overshoot; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); undershoot;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN 2011), 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-539-3
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2011.1319
