Strong Self-Phase Modulation in Data Erasing Beyond 20 Gb/s Using Saturated Ultra-Long SOA

Napoleão S. Ribeiro, Cristiano M. Gallep, Evandro Conforti

DOI: 10.14209/sbrt.2012.4

Evento: XXX Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações (SBrT2012)

Keywords: Optical Carrier reuse Optical Data Processing Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

Abstract

Optical data extinction using ultra-long SOA is evaluated up to 56 Gb/s. The analysis of the deleterious effects such as spectral broadening and imperfect erasing predicts useful carrier wavelength reuse up to 20 Gb/s.

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