Improvement of cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier gates by using holding light injection

Authors
Yu, JJ Jeppesen, P
Citation
Jj. Yu et P. Jeppesen, Improvement of cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier gates by using holding light injection, J LIGHTW T, 19(5), 2001, pp. 614-623
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
ISSN journal
07338724 → ACNP
Volume
19
Issue
5
Year of publication
2001
Pages
614 - 623
Database
ISI
SICI code
0733-8724(200105)19:5<614:IOCSOA>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
The cascadability of semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) gates by using h olding light injection is numerically and experimentally investigated. Our experimental results show that the signal bit error rate after two cascaded SOA gates will be larger than 10(-9) without holding light injection; howe ver, 11 SOA gates can be cascaded with holding light injection. The results show that the number of cascaded SOA gates by using holding light injectio n can be strongly increased.