Abstract
We investigate the effects of intraband crosstalk on the intensity noise suppression of spectrum-sliced incoherent light sources using semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). Both Q-factor and electrical spectrum measurements clearly show that intraband crosstalk deteriorates the SOA-based noise suppression by breaking the correlation between optical frequency components of light.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 1650274 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1542-1544 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | IEEE Photonics Technology Letters |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 14 |
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| State | Published - 15 Jul 2006 |
Keywords
- Crosstalk
- Optical noise
- Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)
- Spectrum slicing