Transmission performance of WDM systems based on semiconductor optical modulators

Author

Gao, Y. ; Cartledge, J.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, Ont., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1-4 Dec 1998

Firstpage

301

Abstract

Modulator chirp and fiber nonlinearities are two important effects that influence the transmission performance of WDM systems based on nondispersion shifted fiber. To avoid attenuation limited performance for 10 Gb/s signals and hence achieve dispersion limited transmission, either an optical booster amplifier or optical preamplifier is typically required. Either a semiconductor optical amplifier or erbium doped fiber amplifier can be used at the transmitter with the former offering the potential advantage of photonic integration with a modulator and laser

Keywords

chirp modulation; electro-optical modulation; nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; optical transmitters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; Gb/s signals; WDM systems; attenuation limited performance; dispersion limited transmission; erbium doped fiber amplifier; fiber nonlinearities; nondispersion shifted fiber; nonlinear optics; optical booster amplifier; optical preamplifier; photonic integration; semiconductor optical amplifier; semiconductor optical modulators; transmission performance; transmitter; Chirp modulation; Erbium; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Preamplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4947-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1998.737850

Filename

737850