Improved system performance of wavelength conversion via four-wave mixing in a tandem semiconductor optical amplifier configuration
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 33 (2), 148-149
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19970085
Abstract
A tandem configuration for wavelength conversion using four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier is suggested as a method to obtain enhanced signal-noise ratios due to longer interaction length. Experimental results show a decrease in the overall penalty for wavelength conversion at 10 Gbit/s. Furthermore, good system performance can be obtained at much lower input signal powers than for a single device.Keywords
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