Semiconductor laser amplifiers muse both distortion and crosstalk in WDM systems due to
gain saturation. A method using Light injection is experimentally demonstrated to reduce …

This letter demonstrates that a gain saturated laser diode amplifier, due to its input/output
characteristic, has the effect of reducing signal fluctuation. Bit error rate measurement shows …

The dynamic characteristics of a gain saturated semiconductor laser amplifier with 1.47-μm
pump light are described. In addition to improving the saturation output power, the pump …

Improvement of saturation output power in a semiconductor laser amplifier through pumping
light injection Page 1 58 IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, VOL. 8, NO. 1, JANUARY …

Crosstalk due to four-wave mixing in a semiconductor laser amplifier for optical FDM
(frequency-division multiplexing) transmission is reported. Even when a laser amplifier is …

A theoretical study of channel crosstalk due to gain saturation in a laser amplifier in
multichannel transmission is discussed. When the amplifier is gain-saturated, the gain of any …

The performance of a 1.5-mu m Fabry-Perot type laser amplifier having two input signals at
different wavelengths is experimentally studied. Crosstalk between the two signals at the …

We report the performance degradation of optical receivers incorporating semiconductor
laser amplifiers (SLAs) caused by the nonzero extinction ratio of the input optical signal. The …

To investigate the performance of the OEIC two types of opti Page 1 To investigate the
performance of the OEIC two types of optical device were cleaved; one without an external …

Crosstalk arising from gain saturation effects in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA's)
causes major system impairments in wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) transmission …