80 Gb/s multi-wavelength booster amplification in an InGaAs/GaAs quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Schmidt-Langhorst, Carsten; Meuer, Christian; Galperin, Andrey; Schmeckebier, Holger; Ludwig, Reinhold; Puris, Dmitriy; Bimberg, Dieter; Petermann, Klaus; Schubert, Colja
- Source
- 36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on. :1-3 Sep, 2010
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Gain
Optical noise
Signal to noise ratio
Power amplifiers
Power generation
Optical attenuators
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
- Language
- ISSN
- 1550-381X
Error-free booster amplification in a 4-mm QD-SOA has been achieved with 1-dB OSNR-penalty up to +15dBm output power for single-channel 80-Gb/s RZ-OOK signals and up to +8.3dBm for 4-channel multi-wavelength (80-Gb/s RZ-OOK + 3×40-Gb/s NRZ-OOK) signals on a 5-nm grid.