Title :
Optical carrier data erasing using saturated ultra-long semiconductor optical amplifier
Author :
Ribeiro, Napoleão S. ; Cavalcante, André L R ; Gallep, Cristiano M. ; Conforti, Evandro
Author_Institution :
DMO, State Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Abstract :
Amplitude-modulated optical carrier (7Gbps, 5.5dB extinction-ratio) is erased by an extremely saturated Ultra-Long SOA and afterwards re-modulated (3.3Gbps), generate an upstream carrier with power penalties lower than 1dB.
Keywords :
amplitude modulation; optical modulation; passive optical networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; amplitude-modulated optical carrier; optical carrier data erasing; saturated ultralong semiconductor optical amplifier; upstream carrier; optical access network; optical carrier reuse; semiconductor optical amplifier;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5368-9
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698774
