Intensity noise reduction of incoherent light using semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

McCoy, Anoma D. ; Horak, Peter ; Thomsen, Benn C. ; Ibsen, Morten ; Richardson, D.J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

7-10 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

88

Abstract

We review the use of a semiconductor optical amplifier for intensity noise reduction of incoherent sources and describe our recent experimental and theoretical work in this area. We focus in particular on understanding the physical mechanisms underpinning the noise reduction process and which govern the associated spectral broadening. We also describe in detail how onward filtering and transmission degrade the noise reduction and impact use of the technique within a high density spectrum-sliced system.

Keywords

light sources; light transmission; optical fibre amplifiers; optical filters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; spectral line broadening; filtering; high density spectrum-sliced system; incoherent light source; intensity noise reduction; physical mechanism; semiconductor optical amplifier; spectral broadening; transmission; Bit rate; Filtering; Noise reduction; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical noise; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers, 2004. Conference Record of the Thirty-Eighth Asilomar Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8622-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.2004.1399094

Filename

1399094