Zoiros, KE; Janer, CL; Connelly, MJ

2010

August

Optical Engineering

Semiconductor optical amplifier pattern effect suppression for return-to-zero data using an optical delay interferometer

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semiconductor optical amplifier pattern effect return-to-zero data optical delay interferometer TRANSMISSION PERFORMANCE SOAS FORMATS

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An optical delay interferometer (ODI) is employed to suppress the pattern effect manifested on a 10 Gb/s return-to-zero (RZ) data stream when amplified by a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) operated in deep gain saturation. The experimental results verify the competence of the scheme to confront the problem for this signal format by achieving a far better performance than that with the SOA alone. (C) 2010 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. [DOI: 10.1117/1.3481137]

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10.1117/1.3481137