Author:
Srivastava Manas,Hammad Mohab N.,Ahmad Syed Tajammul,Sharma Ankit,Kaszubowska-Anandarajah Aleksandra,Landais Pascal,Anandarajah Prince M.
Abstract
The noise figure and saturation power of a multi-section SOA, with non-uniform bias conditions, are characterized. Optimum biasing achieves 2 dB improvement at a BER of 10−9 for 10 Gb/s OOK transmission over 25 km.