Impact of semiconductor optical amplifiers in coherent down-conversion microwave photonic links
June 6, 2012
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CLEO: Conf. on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 6-11 June 2012.
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Summary
We compare the impact of conventional semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) and high linearity slab-coupled optical waveguide amplifiers (SCOWAs) on the SFDR of carrier-suppressed coherent down-conversion microwave photonic links.