Analysis of the phase noise in saturated SOAs for DPSK applications

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 554-561

  Wei, Xing ^a   Zhang, Liming ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge carrier lifetime; Differential phase shift keying (DPSK); Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIT ERROR RATE; CHARGE CARRIERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CHARGE CARRIER LIFETIME; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFT KEYING (DPSK); PHASE NOISE; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA);

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 17644421401     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.843943     Document Type: Article

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