Experimental comparison of DSF- and SOA-based optical phase conjugator performance in ASE-limited microwave optical links

✍ Scribed by Francisco Ramos; Javier Marti

• Book ID: 102519073
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 155 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-2477
• DOI: 10.1002/mop.1073

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Optical phase conjugators (OPCs) based on either a dispersion‐shifted fiber (DSF) or a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) have been experimentally compared in terms of electrical carrier‐to‐noise ratios and conversion losses in microwave optical links. The experimental results show that the SOA‐based OPC enables using more efficient electrical modulation formats than the DSF‐based OPC due to less influence of the ASE noise. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 29: 31–33, 2001.