Theoretical Analysis of Directly Modulated Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Performance Enhancement by Microring Resonator-Based Notch Filtering

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  • Zoe Rizou
    Lightwave Communications Research Group, Laboratory of Telecommunications Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 67 100 Xanthi, Greece
  • Kyriakos Zoiros
    Lightwave Communications Research Group, Laboratory of Telecommunications Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 67 100 Xanthi, Greece

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<jats:p>We demonstrate the feasibility of using a single microring resonator (MRR) as optical notch filter for enabling the direct modulation of a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) at more than tripled data rate than possible with the RSOA alone. We conduct a thorough simulation analysis to investigate and assess the impact of critical operating parameters on defined performance metrics, and we specify how the former must be selected so that the latter can become acceptable. By using an MRR of appropriate radius and detuning, the RSOA modulation bandwidth, which we explicitly quantify, can be extended to overcome the RSOA pattern-dependent performance limitations. Thus, the MRR makes the RSOA-encoded signal exhibit improved characteristics that can be exploited in practical RSOA direct modulation applications.</jats:p>

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