The influence of saturated Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers "SOA" (classical or gain clamped) on the transmission characteristics of a fibre optical link carrying a microwave signal is presented. SOAs present different behaviour in term of gain, nonlinearity, frequency response and noise in accordance with the modulation frequency of the input signal.


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    Title :

    Semiconductor optical amplifiers for microwave photonics links


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    Publication date :

    2002-01-01


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    356560 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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