Terminal design for a WDM system with in-line semiconductor optical amplifiers

摘要

Semi-conductor amplifiers may be used in an optical transmission system without infecting transmitted data with cross-talk from adjacent channels by modulating the data and an alternative expression thereof onto respective optical carriers having the same wavelength, but polarized differently, and then combining the modulated signals. The modulated result is a signal having a relatively constant amplitude, but nevertheless carrying the underlying data, which may be recovered at a receiving end by regenerating the polarized signals and demodulating one or both of those signals.