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[RACTI-RU1-2004-55] Pleros, N., Kanellos, T, Bintjas, C, Hatziefremidis, A. and Avramopoulos, Hercules, Optical Power Limiter Using a Saturated SOA-Based Interferometric Switch, in: Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE, volume 16, number 10, pages 2350-2352, 2004. [DOI]

Keywords:

Limiter, optical signal processing, semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI)

[RACTI-RU1-2004-55] Pleros, N., Kanellos, T, Bintjas, C, Hatziefremidis, A. and Avramopoulos, Hercules, Optical Power Limiter Using a Saturated SOA-Based Interferometric Switch, in: Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE, volume 16, number 10, pages 2350-2352, 2004. [DOI]
Abstract: We demonstrate an optical power limiter using a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based interferometric gate powered by a strong continuous-wave input signal. We present a detailed theoretical and experimental investigation of the power limiting characteristics of saturated SOA-based switches, showing good agreement between theory and experiment.
[RACTI-RU1-2004-62] Kanellos, T, Pleros, N., Bintjas, C, Avramopoulos, Hercules and Guekos, G., SOA-based interferometric optical hard-limiter, in: Conference Tech. Dig. JWB15 (OAA 2004), San Francisco USA, 2004.
Abstract: We present experimental and theoretical analysis of an optical hard limiter that uses SOA-based interferometers. Its operation relies on the deep saturation of SOA and it can suppress amplitude modulation in excess of 10 dB.