• DocumentCode
    840627
  • Title

    Compensation of nonlinearity in semiconductor optical amplifiers

  • Author

    Saleh, A.A.M. ; Jopson, R.M. ; Darcie, Thomas

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ
  • Volume
    24
  • Issue
    15
  • fYear
    1988
  • fDate
    7/21/1988 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    950
  • Lastpage
    952
  • Abstract
    The nonlinearity inherent in semiconductor optical amplifiers can cause adverse system effects, such as intermodulation distortion (IMD) in FDM systems, crosstalk in on/off-keying WDM systems, and pulse distortion in multi-Gbit/s on/off-keying systems. The authors present a practical, feed-forward linearisation scheme that is capable of reducing these effects significantly. A two-tone experiment confirms the reduction of the IMD by about 14 dB
  • Keywords
    amplifiers; compensation; optical communication equipment; semiconductor junction lasers; FDM systems; IMD; crosstalk; feed-forward linearisation scheme; intermodulation distortion; laser; multi-Gbit/s on/off-keying systems; nonlinearity compensation; on/off-keying WDM systems; optical communication; pulse distortion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; two-tone experiment;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • Filename
    191656