Detailed theoretical investigation and comparison of the cascadability of conventional and gain-clamped SOA gates in multiwavelength optical networks

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1494-1496

  Wolfson, D ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); LIGHT EXTINCTION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR LASERS; MULTIWAVELENGTH OPTICAL NETWORKS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0033221428     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.803090     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. E. Goldstein, L. Eskildsen, and A. F. Elrefaie, "Performance implications of component crosstalk in transparent lightwave networks," IEEE Photon. Technol Lett., vol. 6, pp. 657-660, May 1994.
2. B. Mikkelsen, T. Durhuus, C. Joergensen, K. E. Stubkjaer, P. Doussiere, G. Garabedian, C. Graver, and D. Leclerc, "High performance semiconductor optical amplifiers as in-line and pre-amplifiers," in Proc. ECOC'94, Florence, Italy, 1994, vol. 2, pp. 710-713.
3. G. Soulage, P. Doussiere, A. Jourdan, and M. Sotom, "Clamped gain travelling wave semiconductor optical amplifier as a large dynamic range optical gate," in Proc. ECOC'94, Florence, Italy, 1994, vol. 1, pp. 451-454.
4. T. Durhuus, B. Mikkelsen, and K. E. Stubkjaer, "Detailed dynamic model for semiconductor optical amplifiers and their crosstalk and intermodulation distortion," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 10, pp. 1056-1065, Aug. 1992.
5. G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics, 2nd ed. London, U.K.: Academic, 1995, ch. 10, pp. 451-455.
6. P. Doussiere, F. Pommereau, J. Y. Emery, R. Ngo, J. L. Lafragette, P. Aubert, L. Goldstein, G. Soulage, T. Ducellier, and M. Bachmann, "1550 nm polarization independent DBR gain-clamped SOA with high dynamic input power range," in Proc. ECOC'96, Oslo, Norway, 1996, vol. 3, pp. 169-172.
7. D. Wolfson, S. L. Danielsen, C. Joergensen, B. Mikkelsen, and K. E. Stubkjaer, "Detailed theoretical investigation of the input power dynamic range for gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier gates at 10 Gbit/s," IEEE Photon. Technol Lett., vol. 10, pp. 1241-1243, Sept. 1998.
8. S. L. Danielsen, P. B. Hansen, D. Wolfson, B. Mikkelsen, K. E. Stubkjaer, J. Y. Emery, F. Pommereau, and M. Renaud, in Tech. Dig. OFC'98, San Jose, CA. Feb. 1998, paper TuH2.