Title :
High speed high sensitivity simultaneous detection and amplification with semiconductor laser amplifiers
Author :
Dall´Ara, R. ; Melchior, H.
Author_Institution :
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Abstract :
A laser amplifier has been successfully used as amplifier/detector up to 1.2 Gbit/s with sensitivity of -29.5 dBm at BER of 10/sup -9/ with a simultaneous cavity gain of 24 dB. To our knowledge these results represent an improvement of 10 dB compared with previously published results.
Keywords :
Bit error rate; Gain; High speed optical techniques; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical receivers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Tellurium;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Laser Conference , 1992. Conference Digest. 13th IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Kagazwa, Japan
Print_ISBN :
4-930813-51-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISLC.1992.763604
