IEC_TR_61292-9-2013.pdf

IEC/TR 61292-9 Edition 1.0 2013-11 TECHNICAL REPORT Optical amplifiers Part 9:Semiconductor optical amplifiers(SOAs)IEC/TR 61292-9:2013(E)colourinsideCopyrighted material licensed to BR Demo by Thomson Reuters(Scientific),Inc.,,downloaded on Nov-27-2014 by James Madison.No further reproduction or distribution is permitted.Uncontrolled when printed.THIS PUBLICATION IS COPYRIGHT PROTECTED Copyright 2013 IEC,Geneva,Switzerland All rights reserved.Unless otherwise specified,no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying and microfilm,without permission in writing from either IEC or IECs member National Committee in the country of the requester.If you have any questions about IEC copyright or have an enquiry about obtaining additional rights to this publication,please contact the address below or your local IEC member National Committee for further information.IEC Central Office Tel.:+41 22 919 02 11 3,rue de Varemb Fax:+41 22 919 03 00 CH-1211 Geneva 20 infoiec.ch Switzerland www.iec.ch About the IEC The International Electrotechnical Commission(IEC)is the leading global organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical,electronic and related technologies.About IEC publications The technical content of IEC publications is kept under constant review by the IEC.Please make sure that you have the latest edition,a corrigenda or an amendment might have been published.Useful links:IEC publications search-www.iec.ch/searchpub The advanced search enables you to find IEC publications by a variety of criteria(reference number,text,technical committee,).It also gives information on projects,replaced and withdrawn publications.IEC Just Published-webstore.iec.ch/justpublished Stay up to date on all new IEC publications.Just Published details all new publications released.Available on-line and also once a month by email.Electropedia-www.electropedia.org The worlds leading online dictionary of electronic and electrical terms containing more than 30 000 terms and definitions in English and French,with equivalent terms in additional languages.Also known as the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary(IEV)on-line.Customer Service Centre-webstore.iec.ch/csc If you wish to give us your feedback on this publication or need further assistance,please contact the Customer Service Centre:csciec.ch.Copyrighted material licensed to BR Demo by Thomson Reuters(Scientific),Inc.,,downloaded on Nov-27-2014 by James Madison.No further reproduction or distribution is permitted.Uncontrolled when printed.IEC/TR 61292-9 Edition 1.0 2013-11 TECHNICAL REPORT Optical amplifiers Part 9:Semiconductor optical amplifiers(SOAs)INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION S ICS 33.160.10;33.180.30 PRICE CODE ISBN 978-2-8322-1169-4 Registered trademark of the International Electrotechnical Commission Warning!Make sure that you obtained this publication from an authorized distributor.colourinsideCopyrighted material licensed to BR Demo by Thomson Reuters(Scientific),Inc.,,downloaded on Nov-27-2014 by James Madison.No further reproduction or distribution is permitted.Uncontrolled when printed.2 TR 61292-9 IEC:2013(E)CONTENTS FOREWORD.4 INTRODUCTION.6 1 Scope.7 2 Terms,definitions,abbreviations and symbols.7 2.1 Terms and definitions.7 2.2 Abbreviations.7 2.3 Symbols.8 3 Specific features of SOAs.9 3.1 SOA chips.9 3.2 SOA modules.11 3.3 Gain ripple.11 3.4 Polarization dependent gain(PDG).13 3.4.1 General.13 3.4.2 Polarization insensitive SOAs.13 3.5 Noise figure(NF).13 3.6 Lifetime of carriers.14 3.7 Nonlinear effects.14 4 Measurement of SOA output power and PDG.14 4.1 Narrow-band versus broadband light source.14 4.2 Recommended set-up for output power and PDG measurements.15 4.3 Examples of measurement results obtained by using the recommended set-up.16 Annex A(informative)Applications of SOAs.19 A.1 General.19 A.2 Polarization mode of SOAs.19 A.3 Reach extender for GPON.19 A.4 Pre-amplifier in transceivers for 100 GE.19 A.5 Monolithic integration of SOAs.20 A.6 Reflective SOAs(RSOAs).21 Bibliography.22 Figure 1 Schematic diagram of the typical SOA chip.9 Figure 2 Example of gain dependency on forward current of the SOA chip.9 Figure 3 Schematic top view of a typical SOA chip with and without an angled waveguide structure.10 Figure 4 Schematic top view of the typical SOA module.11 Figure 5 Schematic diagram of the optical feedback inside the SOA chip.12 Figure 6 Schematic diagram of gain ripple.12 Figure 7 Output power and PDG dependence on the wavelength of the SOA chip.14 Figure 8 Recommended measurement set-up for optical power and PDG of SOA modules.15 Figure 9 Recommended measurement set-up for optical power and PDG of SOA chips.16 Figure 10 Optical power spectra of three different SOA chips.16 Figure 11 Output power and PDG of the SOA chip sample no.1 as a function of IF.17 Copyrighted material licensed to BR Demo by Thomson Reuters(Sc