A scheme utilizing gain-switched modulation to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of
Brillouin optical time domain reflectometer (BOTDR) is proposed and evaluated. The …

We demonstrate the feasibility of using a single microring resonator (MRR) as optical notch
filter for enabling the direct modulation of a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) …

The feasibility of employing a birefringent fiber loop to enhance the performance of a directly
modulated reflective semiconductor optical amplifier is experimentally demonstrated for the …

We demonstrate through numerical simulations that a passive single-bus microring
resonator (MRR) employed as notch filter enables to directly modulate an ordinary …

A technique to characterize amplitude distortions and optical carrier frequency variations
(chirp) using optical heterodyne reception and data post-processing is presented …

Numerical investigation was done for the response of two semiconductor optical amplifiers
(SOA) to direct modulation using three of the most commonly employed intensity modulation …

We apply a reduced but efficient model to simulate the operation of a directly modulated
reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA). The numerical results allow us to …

This manuscript tackles the issue of circuit parasitics of reflective semiconductor optical
amplifiers (RSOAs), which has been often identified as the main culprit for their relatively …

We propose a novel optical-frequency-comb (OFC) generation scheme based on single-
tone modulation and the four-wave mixing (FWM) effect in one single semiconductor optical …

Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) have been receiving intense interest for use as
external modulators in a variety of fundamental and advanced applications. However the …