| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1540996 | Optics Communications | 2007 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We propose and demonstrate a polarization-insensitive dynamic-channel-equalizer (DCE) for compensating erbium-doped-fiber-amplifier (EDFA) amplified signals after dynamic optical add/drop. The DCE can be monolithically integrated on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform and is potentially low cost and compact. The DCE can compensate complicated gain slope shape, which may be generated in cascaded EDFAs or deliberate channel add/drop, based on individual channel equalization. Fifteen-decibel receiver sensitivity improvement at 10Â Gb/s bit-error-rate (BER) measurement of 10â9 was achieved in the compensated channel by removing cross-gain-modulation generated by neighboring channel add/drop.
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Authors
Y. Liu, C.W. Chow, C.H. Kwok, H.K. Tsang, Chinlon Lin,