Impact of dispersion, PMD, and PDL on the performance of spectrum-sliced incoherent light sources using gain-saturated semiconductor optical amplifiers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 775-785

  Kim, Hoon ^a,b   Kim, Sangho ^b   Hwang, Seongtaek ^b   Oh, Yunje ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (South Korea)

^b SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

GAIN-SATURATED (GS); OPTICAL NOISE; POLARIZATION-DEPENDENT LOSS (PDL); SPECTRUM SLICING;

BIT ERROR RATE; CHROMATIC DISPERSION; NOISE ABATEMENT; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 33749423696     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.862450     Document Type: Article

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