Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers in Coherent Optical-OFDM Systems

Hamidreza Khaleghi (1) , Ammar Sharaiha (2) , Thierry Rampone (2) , Pascal Morel (1) , Mikael Guegan (2)

1 Lab-STICC - Laboratoire des sciences et techniques de l'information, de la communication et de la connaissance
2 Lab-STICC_ENIB_MOM_DIM

Experimental results of using a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) for amplification of a Coherent Optical-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (CO-OFDM) transmission system are presented. The impact of the SOA nonlinearities on the amplification of a 10.94 Gb/s QPSK CO-OFDM signal with respect to the input power, the signal wavelength and the number of subcarriers is investigated.

Domaines: Optique / photonique

Hamidreza Khaleghi, Ammar Sharaiha, Thierry Rampone, Pascal Morel, Mikael Guegan. Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers in Coherent Optical-OFDM Systems. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2012, pp.10.1109/LPT.2012.2183346. ⟨10.1109/LPT.2012.2183346⟩. ⟨hal-00660687⟩