Abstract
The pattern effect in semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is experimentally investigated in 40Gbps coherent 16QAM transmissions. The pattern-dependent phase distortion reveals to strictly limit the operable range of SOA in ordinal coherent transceivers with linear equalizers.
© 2012 Optical Society of America
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