Abstract
We show through experiment that the intensity noise suppression of spectrum-sliced incoherent light sources achieved by using gain-saturated semiconductor optical amplifiers can be negated by chromatic dispersion, polarization-mode dispersion, or polarization-dependent loss.
© 2005 Optical Society of America
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