COMPARISON BETWEEN STATIC AND DYNAMIC CLIPPING DISTORTION IN SEMICONDUCTOR-LASERS

Authors
Citation
B. Pucel, COMPARISON BETWEEN STATIC AND DYNAMIC CLIPPING DISTORTION IN SEMICONDUCTOR-LASERS, IEEE photonics technology letters, 9(11), 1997, pp. 1532-1534
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
9
Issue
11
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1532 - 1534
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1997)9:11<1532:CBSADC>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
A new test signal is introduced to evaluate the dynamic behavior of a semiconductor laser in a subcarrier multiplexed system. With the use o f this test signal it is shown that dynamic effects of clipping yield to a higher nonlinear distortion than static clipping does.