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Krzczanowicz, L,Connelly, MJ,Leitgeb, E,Plank, T

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2013 18TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON NETWORK AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND 2013 8TH CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL CABLING AND INFRASTRUCTURE (NOC-OC&I)

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Experimental Evaluation of 40 Gb/s NRZ-DQPSK Data Amplification Using a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

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2013

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semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) DQPSK phase modulation

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DQPSK modulation has become particularly attractive in high-speed optical communications because of its resistance to fiber nonlinearities and its more efficient use of fiber bandwidth. We experimentally study the amplification of 40 Gbit/s (20 Gbaud) NRZ-DQPSK data by a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The Q factors before and after amplification are measured. A bulk SOA with 21 dB gain and 10 dBm output saturation power is used. The Q factor of the demodulated data after amplification ranges from 5 to 7 with a maximum penalty of 0.7 dB compared to the back-to-back measurements.

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