Travelling wave semiconductor optical amplifier with reduced nonlinear distortions

6 January 1994

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 30 (1), 49-50
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19940004

Abstract

The authors propose an all-optical linearisation scheme for suppression of nonlinear distortion in semiconductor optical amplifiers. First experimental results show better than 10 dB reduction of second order harmonic distortion of an amplified sinusoidally amplitude modulated signal.

Keywords

ALL-OPTICAL LINEARISATION SCHEME
TRAVELLING WAVE SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER
SECOND ORDER HARMONIC DISTORTION
NONLINEAR DISTORTION
REDUCED NONLINEAR DISTORTIONS
AMPLIFIED SINUSOIDALLY AMPLITUDE MODULATED SIGNAL

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