SNR of 3-stage fiber delay lines based on SOAs in microwave photonics link

Author

Li, Shuguang ; Li, Xinwan ; Shen, Jianguo ; Hong, Zehua ; Chen, Jianping

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2010

fDate

14-15 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Signal to noise ratio (SNR) of multi-stage optical fiber delay lines based on semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) is demonstrated with experiments by carrying 8 GHz microwave sinusoidal signal. We conclude that, higher input power of microwave source and the higher gain of SOAs will improve the performance of SNR. What´s more, it is shown that more stages of optical fiber delay lines based on SOAs decrease the SNR.

Keywords

microwave photonics; optical fibres; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SNR; SOA; microwave photonics link; microwave sinusoidal signal; multistage optical fiber delay lines; semiconductor optical amplifiers; signal to noise ratio; Delay lines; Microwave photonics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical sensors; Optical switches; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio; SOA; component; fiber delay line; microwave photonics; signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC), 2010 19th Annual

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7597-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WOCC.2010.5510649

Filename

5510649