In this paper we propose and experimentally demonstrate a tunable laser structure cascading a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) that generates broadband amplified spontaneous emission and a reflective Opto-VLSI processor that dynamically reflects arbitrarily wavelengths and injects them back into the SOA, thus synthesizing an output signal of variable wavelength. The wavelength tunablility ...

The consequences of tailoring the longitudinal carrier density along the active layer of a multi-contact bulk semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) are investigated using a rate equation model. It is shown that both the noise figure and output power saturation can be optimized for a fixed total injected bias current. The simulation results are validated by comparison with experiment using a mul...

The field of optical communications is moving toward the realization of photonic networks with wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) utilizing the full bandwidth of optical fibers. Conventionally, an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) and a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) are used for amplifying an optical signal in optical communications. SOAs can contribute to this and offer the key a...

Optical communication technology has been developed rapidly to achieve larger transmission capacity and longer transmission distance. In this paper we demonstrated optical time division multiplexing extended reach 10 Gb/s passive optical network (PON) architecture of 100 km length with 1:128 split ratio. The 100 km system is enabled by the use of corning nexcore fiber and corning SMF-28 fiber w...

This paper investigates the impact of a train of input Gaussian pulses wavelength on semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) gain uniformity for high speed applications. In high speed applications, the linear output gain of the input pulses is necessary in order to minimize the gain standard deviation and power penalties. A segmentation model of the SOA is demonstrated to utilize the complete rat...

-In this paper, we propose the scheme for improving the characteristics of wavelength converter based on cross-gain modulation (XGM) in semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). In front of the wavelength converter, a pre-amplifier is placed and adjusted to get optimal performance of wavelength converter in terms of bit error rate (BER) and corresponding power penalty. In the simulation, wavelengt...

The terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD) or semiconductor amplifier (SOA)-assisted Sagnac switches have been used to construct an all-optical 4-bit carry skip adder. This design aims satisfy the high speed and accuracy requirements of modern ultrafast digital transmission. Using a combination multiplexer full adder, we describe When compared ripple adder look-ahead may be employed ...

Network management for optical networking facing many problems as the system capacity and complexity increasing day by day that arises by using the transparent optical network components in communication system. In this article we are proposing a novel scheme of all optical networking management system. Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is used after the channel to equalize the signal power...

The service evolution and the rapid increase in traffic levels fuel the interest toward switching paradigms enabling the fast allocation of Wavelength Division Multiplexing WDM channels in an on demand fashion with fine granularities (microsecond scales). For this reason, in the last years, different optical switching paradigms have been proposed (Sabella et al., 2000): optical-packet switching...

Application of terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD) in ultrafast all-optical switching has received a great deal of interest in the last few years because of its simplicity and low switching energy [1]. However, existing TOAD switches see Fig. 1(a), suffer from asymmetrical switching window (SW) profile that results in high crosstalk, which in turn affects the bit error rate (BER) ...