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11、or.colourinsideCopyrighted material licensed to BR Demo by Thomson Reuters(Scientific),Inc.,downloaded on Nov-27-2014 by James Madison.No further reproduction or distribution is permitted.Uncontrolled when printed.2 TR 61292-9 IEC:2013(E)CONTENTS FOREWORD.4 INTRODUCTION.6 1 Scope.7 2 Terms,definitio
12、ns,abbreviations and symbols.7 2.1 Terms and definitions.7 2.2 Abbreviations.7 2.3 Symbols.8 3 Specific features of SOAs.9 3.1 SOA chips.9 3.2 SOA modules.11 3.3 Gain ripple.11 3.4 Polarization dependent gain(PDG).13 3.4.1 General.13 3.4.2 Polarization insensitive SOAs.13 3.5 Noise figure(NF).13 3.6
13、 Lifetime of carriers.14 3.7 Nonlinear effects.14 4 Measurement of SOA output power and PDG.14 4.1 Narrow-band versus broadband light source.14 4.2 Recommended set-up for output power and PDG measurements.15 4.3 Examples of measurement results obtained by using the recommended set-up.16 Annex A(info
14、rmative)Applications of SOAs.19 A.1 General.19 A.2 Polarization mode of SOAs.19 A.3 Reach extender for GPON.19 A.4 Pre-amplifier in transceivers for 100 GE.19 A.5 Monolithic integration of SOAs.20 A.6 Reflective SOAs(RSOAs).21 Bibliography.22 Figure 1 Schematic diagram of the typical SOA chip.9 Figu
15、re 2 Example of gain dependency on forward current of the SOA chip.9 Figure 3 Schematic top view of a typical SOA chip with and without an angled waveguide structure.10 Figure 4 Schematic top view of the typical SOA module.11 Figure 5 Schematic diagram of the optical feedback inside the SOA chip.12
16、Figure 6 Schematic diagram of gain ripple.12 Figure 7 Output power and PDG dependence on the wavelength of the SOA chip.14 Figure 8 Recommended measurement set-up for optical power and PDG of SOA modules.15 Figure 9 Recommended measurement set-up for optical power and PDG of SOA chips.16 Figure 10 Optical power spectra of three different SOA chips.16 Figure 11 Output power and PDG of the SOA chip sample no.1 as a function of IF.17 Copyrighted material licensed to BR Demo by Thomson Reuters(Sc
