Filtering Effects in a Spectrum-Sliced WDM System Using SOA-Based Noise Reduction

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 680-682

  McCoy, Anoma D ^a   Thomsen, Benn C ^a   Ibsen, Morten ^a   Richardson, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical noise; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Spectrum slicing; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; CROSSTALK; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; OPTICAL FILTERS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

OPTICAL NOISE; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA); SPECTRUM SLICING;

WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 1442312198     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.821077     Document Type: Article

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