Conference paper
Compensation of gain saturation in SOA-gates by interferometric Mach-Zehnder wavelength converters
Compensation of signal degradation in semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) gates for optical switch nodes using all-active integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometric wavelength converters is experimentally demonstrated at 2.5 and 10 Gb/s. More than 10 dB improvement of the dynamic range is obtained compared to a stand-alone SOA-gate.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | IEEE |
Year: | 1996 |
Pages: | 45-48 |
Proceedings: | 22nd European Conference on Optical Communication |
ISBN: | 8242304181 and 9788242304186 |
Types: | Conference paper |
2.5 to 10 Gbit/s Degradation Dynamic range Mach-Zehnder interferometers Optical crosstalk Optical interferometry Optical saturation Optical switches Optical wavelength conversion Power semiconductor switches Quantum well devices SOA-gates Semiconductor optical amplifiers WDM all-active integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometric wavelength converters compensation dynamic range electro-optical switches gain saturation integrated optics interferometric Mach-Zehnder wavelength converters optical communication equipment optical frequency conversion optical saturation optical switch nodes semiconductor lasers signal degradation stand-alone SOA-gate wavelength division multiplexing