Experimental demonstration of Cascaded Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Based Gates Using Polarization Multiplexing Technique

摘要

Cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) gates using polarization multiplexing technique (PMT) is experimentally demonstrated for the first time. The penalty is smaller than 1 dB after three SOA gates. Experiment shows that four-wave mixing (FWM) will also affect the performance of SOA gates when operated in a multi-channel system.