Four-Wave Mixing Aplication in Semiconductor Optical Amplifier
Radoslav Odrobinak
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Abstract
Four-Wave Mixing (FWM) in semiconductor optical amplifiers is an attrative mechanism for wavelenght coversion in wavelenght-division multiplexed (WDM) systems since it provides modulation format and bit rate transparency over wide tuning ranges. A series of systems experiments evaluating several aspects of the performance of these devices at bit rates of 2.5 and 10 Gb/s are presented.