DocumentCode
671007
Title
Modulation cancellation properties of reflective SOAs
Author
O´Duill, Sean ; Marazzi, Lucia ; Palolari, Paola ; Koos, C. ; Freude, W. ; Leuthold, Juerg
Author_Institution
IPQ & IMT, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany
fYear
2012
fDate
16-20 Sept. 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
Modulation cancellation and signal inversion are demonstrated within reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers (RSOAs). The effect is useful to implement colorless ONUs where downstream signals need to be erased in order to reuse the carrier for the upstream.
Keywords
passive optical networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; colorless ONU; downstream signals; modulation cancellation properties; reflective SOA; reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers; signal inversion; Gain; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location
Amsterdam
Type
conf
Filename
6706276
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