A 1.3μm two-section multi-quantum well refective semiconductor optical amplifier is designed and fabricated. The impacts of injection current density ratio and the reflectivity of the reflective facet on gain, sat- uration and noise characteristics are studied theoretically and experimentally. The results indicate that the gain and saturation power can be easily manipulated by changing the current density ratio; and better gain and noise characteristics can be obtained when the reflectivity is appropriately selected.
A simple and cost-effective remodulation scheme using a two-section reflective semiconductor optical amplifier （RSOA） is proposed for a colorless optical network unit （ONU）. Under proper injection currents, the front section functions as a modulator to upload the upstream signal while the rear section serves as a data eraser for efficient suppression of the downstream data. The dependences of the upstream transmission performance on the lengths and driven currents of the RSOA, the injection optical power and extinction ratio of the downstream are investigated. By optimizing these parameters, the downstream data can be more completely suppressed and the upstream transmission performance can be greatly improved.
