A polarization multiplexing technique to mitigate WDM crosstalk in SOAs
- 1 October 2000
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Vol. 12 (10) , 1415-1416
- https://doi.org/10.1109/68.883848
Abstract
Crosstalk arising from gain saturation effects in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA's) causes major system impairments in wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) transmission of multiple optical channels. We propose a novel polarization multiplexing technique to mitigate the gain saturation effects in SOA's and demonstrate error-free WDM transmission over a 45 km metro-like fiber link for a two-channel case using a SOA.Keywords
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