We investigate the polarization-dependent mode gains and polarization rotation (PR) of the semiconductor optical
amplifier in pump-probe scheme, and find that the relationship between polarization rotation (PR) and mode gains keeps
well under different pump power. Thus we can simply obtain the PR angle by measurement of the mode gains. Choosing
suitable injected current we realize the orthogonal polarization rotation by pump laser with power of ~3.5 mW. Then we
propose a novel digital polarization encoding scheme and perform it well in a 10-km fiber transmission system with data
rate at 2.5 G-bit/s, which is promising to promote the optical power-equalized encoding communications.
ww have presented and demonstrated the dual-wavelength signal storage in Dual-Loop Optical Buffer. The output equality of dual wavelength signals will decrease for unbalanced gain and phase shift. The problem can be resolved by power equalization using the saturation character of SOA. The data packets with2 × 2.5Gb/s can be buffered in DLOB for 16 cycles corresponding to 20 .The Extinction Ratio of the output packet is 8dB while the S/N is 8.1dB.
Abstract-We demonstrated 8 × 10 Gbit/s packets buffered in Dual Loop Optical
Buffer (DLOB).Confirmed by experiments, the crosstalk and unbalanced power
among different wavelengths which is the main restraining of the buffering time can
be avoided by power equalization using Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA). The
buffered data packets can be retrieved after they are buffered for 5 cycles. The power
penalty, the Extinction Ratio and the Signal to Noise Ratio are 4.2dB, 3.98dB, 5.47dB.
The eye diagrams for 8 wavelengths signals are obtained.
We introduce a phenomenological model to describe polarization-sensitive SOAs which is composed of a partly linear
polarizer, a retarder, and a polarization independent amplifier. It shows that any input optical vector of signal will first be
partly linearly polarized, then rotate around S1-axis of the Poincaré sphere for θ, and finally be amplified equably. Then we
investigate and experimentally demonstrate the relationship between polarization rotation (PR) and mode gains. We further
obtain two necessary conditions for the valuable orthogonal polarization rotation (OPR), and then perform a power-equalized
OPR by optical-electric synchronous control of the SOA. The polarization duration time is ~10 ns which is applicable to
high-speed polarization state generation.
Generalized principal state of polarization (PSP) is proposed to analyse the piezoelectric polarization controller
(PPC) and demonstrated by experiment. We find the generalized PSP is a constant in a given PPC unit and the output
state of polarization (SOP) is expressed as a cosine function of driving voltage with its validity analysed. Then the
polarization control system is established based on the PPC with three units and some of the its characteristics are
investigated. Results show the PSPs of three PPC units are approximately orthogonal to each other, and the polarization
response time of our PPC is about 40
μs, which will improve significantly the control speed of polarization control system.
Multi-wavelength optical buffer will be a key element in Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) system and all-optical packet-switched networks. In this paper we have presented and demonstrated the dual-wavelength signal buffering in Dual-Loop Optical Buffer (DLOB) based on Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA). The dual-wavelength
packets are written in and read out of DLOB by single control signal. As the power of the control signal increasing, the
output of the signals is better. In simulation confirmed by experiments, we obtained suitable control power, where the
gain and phase-shift difference between "1" bit and "1+1" bit is minimum. More than 12 cycles' buffering results have
been obtained and the power loss is lower than 4db.
New polarization properties have been observed from the Fresnel reflection on the waveforms of OTDR with the
commercial OTDR produced by Anritsu company. Then a better POTDR system was established in order to discover the
accurate properties, and more remarkable result was obtained by the Serial Data Analyser(SDA5000A).
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