The transmission characteristics of optical fiber connectors are analyzed in detail in order to
calculate nonlinear distortions and noise due to instable speckle patterns. The fluctuation …

For a semiconductor laser oscillating predominantly in a single longitudinal mode, the
reflection feedback from the far end of an optical fiber generates closely spaced side modes …

The capability of a birefringent fiber loop to suppress the pattern effect in a semiconductor
optical amplifier is experimentally demonstrated. The results verify that compared to direct …

Using a gain-saturated semiconductor optical amplifier, we have suppressed the intensity
noise in spectrum-sliced incoherent light communication systems. A large increase has …

Spectral inversion in a semiconductor laser amplifier has been used, for the first time to the
authors' knowledge, to achieve compensation of the chromatic dispersion in singlemode …

By using an InGaAsP semiconductor laser emitting at 1.5? m, where silica fibre loss is at a
minimum, single-mode fibre transmission experiments were successfully carried out at 100 …

The carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) and distortion of a 1.55 mu m amplitude-modulated
subcarrier-multiplexed (AM-SCM) video transmission system are worsened by the …

Optical interference noise was measured with two multilongitudinal mode semiconductor
lasers. The results show that optical interference may seriously degrade the performance of …

Semiconductor lasers have the potential to meet demands for next generation high speed
optical networks. Their low cost, wide tunability, low power consumption, and very good …

It is demonstrated that in broadband networks inline semiconductor laser amplifiers (SLAs)
that provide system gain can also be used as simultaneous transceivers for additional …