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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
Design and performance of 10-Gb/s L-band REAM-SOA for OLT Transmitter in next generation access networks
Abstract:
We present a 10-Gb/s L-band reflective electro-absorption modulator integrated with a semiconductor optical amplifier (REAM-SOA) having improved transmission performance at very low input power of seed light. To decrease the input power of seed light, the absorption characteristics of the REAM are adjusted to reduce the amplified spontaneous emission light returned into the SOA, suppressing the gain saturation effect of the SOA. At a considerably low input power of -16 dBm, the REAM-SOA exhibits a low transmission penalty of about 1.2 dB after 50-km SMF transmission. Over a wide input power range from -16 dBm to 5 dBm, a penalty of less than 1.6 dB is achieved at 50-km transmission.
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