Optimised non-uniform biasing technique for a high-speed optical router to achieveuniform semiconductor optical amplifier gain

• Main Authors: Ng, W. P., El Aziz, A. A., Ghassemlooy, Z., Aly, M. H., Ngah, Razali
• Format: Article
• Published: The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2012
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/32981/; https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6209483
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

In this study, we propose applying non-uniform biasing current technique to improve the gain uniformity of the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) for high-speed optical routers. The output pulses will have high-gain deviation because of the high-speed input pulses and the slow SOA gain recovery,...