Influence of SOA based devices on optical single sideband signals

摘要

Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) have been found to be one of the most attractive solutions to overcome the electrical bottleneck in optical networks. However, the non-linearities of SOA based devices may be harmful to optical modulation formats, especially to the ones that use phase modulation. Based on experimental tests performed at 10 Gb/s we discuss the consequences of SOA based devices on optical single sideband signals. The tested devices were: an amplifier, wavelength converter and a 2R regenerator.