Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) play a crucial role in this technology, as they can amplify optical signals and enable the implementation of various logic gates. Recent studies have ...
Unlike regenerators, which have to convert light to electricity in order to amplify it and then convert it back again to light, the optical amplifier amplifies the light signal itself. Developed ...
However, signal amplification can also be a valuable contribution in a microwave photonic link assessment. There are two types of optical amplifiers: semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and erbium ...
These repeaters worked by receiving the weakened optical signals with photodiodes, demodulating the signal before running it through semiconductor amplifiers, and converting it back into light ...
When a student completes this course, he/she should be able to: Understand the functionality of each of the components that comprise a fiber-optic communication system: transmitter, fiber, amplifier, ...
Abstract: Previously published results on the performance of optical direct detection digital receivers using avalanche detectors are extended to the case where incoherent noise due to quantum ...