DocumentCode
2727361
Title
Spontaneous emission from saturated parametric amplifiers
Author
Rottwitt, Karsten ; Ott, Johan Raunkjær ; Steffensen, Henrik ; Ramachandran, Siddharth
Author_Institution
Dept. of Photonics Eng., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
fYear
2009
fDate
June 28 2009-July 2 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
Noise performance of parametric amplifiers is typically calculated assuming un-depleted operation. However, in many applications especially when applied as regenerative amplifiers in systems based on phase shift keyed modulation schemes, this assumption is not valid. Here we show the impact on accumulated spontaneous emission for a parametric amplifier operated in saturation.
Keywords
optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical parametric amplifiers; optical transmitters; phase shift keying; spontaneous emission; FOPA; fiber optical parametric amplifier; phase shift keyed modulation scheme; regenerative amplifiers; saturated parametric amplifier noise performance; spontaneous emission; Degradation; Operational amplifiers; Optical amplifiers; Performance gain; Photonics; Power amplifiers; Pulse amplifiers; Repeaters; Signal to noise ratio; Spontaneous emission;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Azores
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-4825-8
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-4827-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185056
Filename
5185056
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