Characterization of the Bias Current Behavior in a SOA for Linearizing Amplification in a CO-OFDM System

Julio Ortiz-Cornejo, Jorge Pardiñas-Mir

2019

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) on coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system (CO-OFDM), when it is used as a booster power amplifier. The semiconductor optical amplifier is driven by their bias current injection, which control the amplification level. In this sense, this study analyses the impact of bias current change on a SOA based CO-OFDM system. It is well known that SOA is prone to nonlinear distortion when high input power is used at high gain level, because the gain saturation. In addition to the aforementioned analysis, here it is also presented three operation scenarios to characterize the performance of the system: maximum EVM equal to 20%, constant output power equal to -7 dBm, and constant SOA Gain equal to 17 dB. This let us obtain a way to optimize the SOA performance, under each scenario, controlling the bias current.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ortiz-Cornejo J. and Pardiñas-Mir J. (2019). Characterization of the Bias Current Behavior in a SOA for Linearizing Amplification in a CO-OFDM System.In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 1: OPTICS, ISBN 978-989-758-378-0, pages 243-248. DOI: 10.5220/0007931502430248

in Bibtex Style

@conference{optics19,
author={Julio Ortiz-Cornejo and Jorge Pardiñas-Mir},
title={Characterization of the Bias Current Behavior in a SOA for Linearizing Amplification in a CO-OFDM System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 1: OPTICS,},
year={2019},
pages={243-248},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007931502430248},
isbn={978-989-758-378-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 1: OPTICS,
TI - Characterization of the Bias Current Behavior in a SOA for Linearizing Amplification in a CO-OFDM System
SN - 978-989-758-378-0
AU - Ortiz-Cornejo J.
AU - Pardiñas-Mir J.
PY - 2019
SP - 243
EP - 248
DO - 10.5220/0007931502430248