Novel Gain Control Scheme of SOA for High Output Power Operation

Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria

Proceedings: ECOC 2009

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Tanaka, Shinsuke; Uetake, Ayahito; Yamazaki, Susumu; Ekawa, Mitsuru; Morito, Ken (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., 10-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, 243-0197, Japan)

Abstract:
We propose a simple gain control scheme of SOA. The heater-mounted SOA exhibited a wide input power dynamic range of >17 dB while keeping high output power of +8.0 dBm for 10Gbps NRZ modulated signals.