Investigation of SOA Nonlinearities on the Amplification of DWDM Channels With Spectral Efficiency Up to 2.5 b/s/Hz

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 918-920

  Cho, Pak S ^a   Achiam, Yaakov ^a   Levy Yurista, Guy ^a   Margalit, Moti ^b   Gross, Yoav ^b   Khurgin, Jacob B ^c  

^a CeLight Inc   (United States)

^b Lambda Crossing Ltd   (Israel)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential phase shift keying; Optical communications; Phase shift keying (PSK); Quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK); Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ERROR CORRECTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MODULATORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTODETECTORS; POLARIZATION; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CHANNEL SPACING; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 1642586988     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.823687     Document Type: Article

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