Title :
Reduction of waveform distortion in a semiconductor optical amplifier using internal birefringence and slope filtering
Author :
Cai, Wenshan ; Dong, Yi ; Zou, Mingyuan ; Zhang, Qi ; Chen, Minghua ; Xie, Shizhong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
A novel method to suppress the waveform distortion in SOAs is proposed and experimented. The results show that the signal distortion and pattern effect are reduced significantly and over 5 dB expansion of input dynamic range is achieved.
Keywords :
birefringence; optical filters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; input dynamic range; internal birefringence; pattern effect; semiconductor optical amplifier; signal distortion; slope filtering; waveform distortion; Birefringence; Costs; Laser feedback; Optical distortion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Performance gain; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tellurium;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989687
