Experimental demonstration of impact of amplified spontaneous emission on devices based on cross-gain modulation in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Bipin Sankar Gopalakrishna Pillai; Ka Lun Lee; Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas; Malin Premaratne; Christina Lim

doi:10.1117/12.724615

21 June 2007 Experimental demonstration of impact of amplified spontaneous emission on devices based on cross-gain modulation in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Bipin Sankar Gopalakrishna Pillai, Ka Lun Lee, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Malin Premaratne, Christina Lim

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Proceedings Volume 6603, Noise and Fluctuations in Photonics, Quantum Optics, and Communications; 660324 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.724615
Event: SPIE Fourth International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, 2007, Florence, Italy

Abstract

We study the impact of Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) noise on a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA)-based optical pulse delay discriminator and SOA-based distance ranger. Our experiments show that ASE reduces the sensitivity of these SOA-based devices and we confirm this finding by carrying out extensive simulations by modeling the ASE response of SOAs. The simulation results, obtained by numerical integration of these equations in MATLAB^TM using the NIMROD^TM portal, are in qualitative agreement with experimental results.

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Bipin Sankar Gopalakrishna Pillai, Ka Lun Lee, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Malin Premaratne, and Christina Lim "Experimental demonstration of impact of amplified spontaneous emission on devices based on cross-gain modulation in semiconductor optical amplifiers", Proc. SPIE 6603, Noise and Fluctuations in Photonics, Quantum Optics, and Communications, 660324 (21 June 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.724615

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