{"title":"Effect of backward ASE noise on the gain distribution in a cascade of SOA switches","authors":"Q. Yang, K. Kelley","doi":"10.1109/LEOSST.2004.1338704","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Backward ASE results in a relatively uniform gain distribution along the cascade link of SOA switch gates, especially at lower powers. The overall performance is however limited due to more noise and saturation effect.","PeriodicalId":280347,"journal":{"name":"Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings Biophotonics/Optical Interconnects and VLSI Photonics/WBM Microcavities, 2004.","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2004-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings Biophotonics/Optical Interconnects and VLSI Photonics/WBM Microcavities, 2004.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOSST.2004.1338704","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Backward ASE results in a relatively uniform gain distribution along the cascade link of SOA switch gates, especially at lower powers. The overall performance is however limited due to more noise and saturation effect.