Evaluation of the cross-polarization modulation impact on the SOA behavior: Using to perform all-optical signal processing

Author

Said, Y. ; Rezig, H. ; Bouallegue, A.

Author_Institution

TIC Dept., Sys´´com Res. Lab., Tunis

fYear

2008

fDate

5-7 May 2008

Firstpage

867

Lastpage

871

Abstract

In this paper, we focus our attention on analyzing the cross-polarization modulation (XPolM) phenomena in the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). Based on numerical simulation consisting in gain and stokes parameters measurement, the impact of XPolM on the SOA structure behavior is reported and detailed. Therefore, the exploitation of the nonlinear polarization rotation effect to perform applications in high bit rate optical networks and functionalities in all-optical signal processing is investigated.

Keywords

optical information processing; optical modulation; optical rotation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; all-optical signal processing; cross-polarization modulation impact; ellipticity; nonlinear polarization rotation effect; semiconductor optical amplifier; Bit rate; Gain measurement; Numerical simulation; Optical fiber networks; Optical polarization; Optical signal processing; Performance evaluation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal processing; Stokes parameters; All-optical; Azimuth; Cross-polarization modulation; Ellipticity; Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 2008. MELECON 2008. The 14th IEEE Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Ajaccio

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1632-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1633-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.2008.4618545

Filename

4618545