Feasibility study of Wide-Band in-line SOA Amplification for PDM-MQAM long-haul WDM Transmission System
01 January 2013
We present a numerical investigation for the use of Semi-conductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA) as broadband amplifiers in a context of quasi-Nyquist WDM long-haul transmission using PDM-QPSK, 8-QAM and 16-QAM modulations. The nonlinear behavior of SOAs is assessed also considering different number of channels and cumulative dispersion.
