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
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;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, 2005 Digest of the
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8981-6
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2005.1527973
