Relative Intensity Noise Performance of Wavelength Converters Based on Four-Wave Mixing in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
| Autor: | Dimitris Syvridis, Hercules Simos, I. Stamataki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Optical amplifier
Physics Amplified spontaneous emission Relative intensity noise business.industry Physics::Optics Condensed Matter Physics Signal Noise (electronics) Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Optical pumping Wavelength Four-wave mixing Optics Electrical and Electronic Engineering business |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 43:370-377 |
| ISSN: | 0018-9197 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/jqe.2007.893012 |
| Popis: | We present a numerical and experimental study of the relative intensity noise (RIN) induced by the four-wave mixing (FWM) based wavelength conversion process in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The study is based on the RIN evaluation of the converted signal, under various operating conditions (input power levels and wavelength detuning) and input noise characteristics. A detailed numerical model is employed to simulate the FWM process, taking into account the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise, the wavelength dependent gain, and the interaction of four waves in the SOA (two input waves and two product waves). It is shown that for low noise input signals, the output RIN is determined by the power levels of the pump and signal and the wavelength detuning. Operation under saturation allows reduction of the output RIN levels with respect to the input |
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