Influence of residual facet reflectivity on nonlinearities in semiconductor optical amplifiers
- 14 February 1991
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 27 (4) , 310-312
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19910196
Abstract
A dynamic model for multichannel amplification by semiconductor optical amplifiers is used to predict the influence of the residual facet reflectivities on intermodulation distortion. For 25dB of singlepass gain a reflectivity of 5 × 10-4 will result in 3 dB excess distortion.Keywords
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