Intensity noise in incoherent-to-coherent wavelength conversion in SOAs

Author

Mathlouthi, W. ; Lemieux, P. ; Rusch, L.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Laval Univ., Que., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

7-10 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

93

Abstract

We examine a noise reduction scheme exploiting cross-gain modulation in SOAs to convert the incoherent received signal to a coherent signal before the detection process, thus reducing the bit error rate (BER) floor. We present experimental results on the effect on the intensity noise in a spectrum-sliced incoherent light system incorporating semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) based noise reduction of the following key parameters: optical bandwidth, electrical bandwidth and the incoherent received power.

Keywords

error statistics; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; BER; SOA; bit error rate; cross-gain modulation; detection process; electrical bandwidth; incoherent received power; incoherent-coherent signal wavelength conversion; intensity noise reduction scheme; optical bandwidth; semiconductor optical amplifier; spectrum-sliced incoherent light system; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Noise reduction; Optical noise; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal detection; Signal processing; Stimulated emission;

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.2004.1399095

Filename

1399095