Title :
Noise contribution of semiconductor optical amplifier based photonic phase shifters
Author :
Duill, Sean O. ; Shumakher, Evgeny ; Eisenstein, Gadi
Author_Institution :
Dept of Electr. Eng., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We present an analytical model to calculate the signal to noise ratio of a slow light based microwave phase shifter that uses semiconductor optical amplifiers. The model includes dynamic noise effects and is confirmed experimentally.
Keywords :
Filtering; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Phase noise; Phase shifters; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
