Conference paper
Spontaneous emission from saturated parametric amplifiers
Noise performance of parametric amplifiers is typically calculated assuming un-depleted operation. However, in many applications especially when applied as regenerative amplifiers in systems based on phase shift keyed modulation schemes, this assumption is not valid. Here we show the impact on accumulated spontaneous emission for a parametric amplifier operated in saturation.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | IEEE |
Year: | 2009 |
Pages: | 1-2 |
Proceedings: | 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks |
ISBN: | 1424448255 , 1424448271 , 9781424448258 , 9781424448272 , 1424448263 and 9781424448265 |
Types: | Conference paper |
DOI: | 10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185056 |
ORCIDs: | Rottwitt, Karsten |
Degradation FOPA Operational amplifiers Optical amplifiers Performance gain Photonics Power amplifiers Pulse amplifiers Repeaters Signal to noise ratio Spontaneous emission fiber optical parametric amplifier optical fibre amplifiers optical fibre communication optical parametric amplifiers optical transmitters phase shift keyed modulation scheme phase shift keying regenerative amplifiers saturated parametric amplifier noise performance spontaneous emission