Measurements and simulations of nonlinear noise redistribution in an SOA

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 16-18

  Öhman, Filip ^a   Tromborg, Bjarne ^a   Mørk, Jesper ^a   Aurelius, Andreas ^b   Djupsjöbacka, Anders ^b   Berntson, Anders ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ACREO AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Noise; Optical communications; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

NONLINEAR NOISE DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL REGENERATORS; SELF MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 12344337539     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.837731     Document Type: Article

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