Title :
The Impact of Polarization-Dependent Gain on the Design of Cascaded Semiconductor Optical Amplifier CWDM Systems
Author :
Antoniades, N. ; Reichmann, Kenneth C. ; Iannone, Patrick P. ; Frigo, Nicholas J. ; Levine, X. A M ; Roudas, I.
Author_Institution :
Phys. Dept., City Univ. of New York, Staten Island, NY
Abstract :
We derive an engineering methodology and study the impact of polarization-dependent gain (PDG) on the design of cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based coarse wavelength-division-multiplexing systems. System specifications can be determined based on receiver optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) requirements and cascaded-SOA OSNR penalty calculations that include a simplified model to calculate PDG statistics
Keywords :
light polarisation; optical receivers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; statistical analysis; wavelength division multiplexing; CWDM systems; cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier; coarse wavelength-division-multiplexing; gain statistics; optical receiver; optical signal-to-noise ratio; penalty calculations; polarization-dependent gain; Gain; Noise figure; Optical amplifiers; Optical crosstalk; Optical design; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio; Amplifiers; networks; optical communications; polarization-dependent gain (PDG);
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2006.883187
