Performance of 18 channel CWDM system with inline Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

Author

Ismail, Khadijah ; Menon, P. Susthitha ; Bakarman, Hesham A. ; Bakar, Ahmad Ashrif A ; Arsad, Norhana

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microeng. & Nanoelectron., Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

fYear

2012

fDate

1-3 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

215

Lastpage

219

Abstract

Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) is used for a 2.5Gbps Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM) transmission in O to L-band (1271-1611 nm). Analysis of the proposed topology is conducted using Optisystem software. In this paper, discussions on the gain spectrum and the quality of signal of an optically amplified 18 channel system are provided. A wideband travelling wave SOA which operates as an inline amplifier resulted in wide 3 dB bandwidth of 200 nm. The overall quality of signal at the receiver is evaluated with the Q factor value. Better performance based on Q factor analysis is obtained at larger lengths of the first fiber span and a flat gain over 11 CWDM channels is obtained.

Keywords

Q-factor; optical receivers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 18 channel CWDM system; CWDM transmission; L-band; Optisystem software; Q factor value; SOA; coarse wavelength division multiplexing; inline amplifier; inline semiconductor optical amplifier; receiver; signal quality; spectrum gain; wideband travelling wave; Gain; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Q factor; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics (ICP), 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1461-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICP.2012.6379870

Filename

6379870