Optimization of holding beam for low-distortion amplification of 16-QAM signal using SOA

Journal
Solar Energy and Light-Emitting Devices in Proceedings Advanced Photonics Congress 2023, Part of Advanced Photonics Congress 2023
Date Issued
2023-01-01
Author(s)
Krishna, Mrudula
DOI
Abstract
Holding beam(HB) reduces amplitude and phase distortions in amplifying modulated signal using SOA. We present the experimental analysis of HB optimization for 32 Gbaud 16-QAM signal to maximise the signal gain while minimising the BER.