DocumentCode
2341898
Title
Scintillation suppression in a free-space optical link with a saturated SOA
Author
Wei, D.-P. ; Therriault-Proulx, F. ; Rusch, L.A. ; Tetu, M.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Laval Univ., Que., Canada
fYear
2005
fDate
25-27 July 2005
Firstpage
21
Lastpage
22
Abstract
Based on a gain saturated semiconductor optical amplifier, we propose a simple approach for scintillation suppression of atmospheric turbulence channels. System performance improvement up to 2.5 Gb/s has been demonstrated.
Keywords
atmospheric turbulence; optical communication equipment; optical links; scintillation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wireless channels; atmospheric turbulence channels; free-space optical link; gain saturated semiconductor optical amplifier; saturated SOA; scintillation suppression; Bit error rate; High speed optical techniques; Laboratories; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical saturation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, 2005 Digest of the
ISSN
1099-4742
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8981-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LEOSST.2005.1527973
Filename
1527973
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