Noise suppression of incoherent light using a gain-saturated SOA: Implications for spectrum-sliced WDM systems

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2399-2409

  McCoy, Anoma D ^a   Horak, Peter ^a   Thomsen, Benn C ^a,b   Ibsen, Morten ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

HIGH-CHANNEL-DENSITY SYSTEMS; OPTICAL NOISE; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); SPECTRUM SLICING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 24944483799     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.852023     Document Type: Article

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