Microring resonator design with application to performance improvement of optically or electrically modulated semiconductor optical amplifiers

Abstract

We propose to employ, through numerical simulations, a passive single-bus microring resonator (MRR) to suppress the pattern effect in an optically or electrically modulated semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The proposed scheme improves the quality of the amplified or encoded signal, respectively, while extending the SOA modulation rate in each case.