Parca, GiorgiaDionísio, Rogério PaisReis, CláudiaBetti, SilvelloBeleffi, Giorgio TosiTeixeira, António2010-12-152010-12-152010PARCA, Giorgia [et al.] - Inherent fabrication yields and asymmetries impacts on MZISOA static modelling. In International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks,12, Munique, Julho 2010. Munique: IEEE, 2010. p. 1-4http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/469“Copyright © [2010] IEEE. Reprinted from ICTON 2010. ISBN: 978-1-4244-7799-9. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@ieee.org. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.”The characteristics of MZI-SOA are affected by its internal design yields and asymmetries, leading to an unbalanced power distribution at the output arms and difficult or non optimum biasing. Therefore, we propose an experimental methodology and model for MZI-SOA structures taking into account internal asymmetries as well as the internal SOA behaviour under different current both as what regards amplitude and phase.engSOAMach-Zehnder SOA interferometerSplitting factorsExtinction ratioAll optical processingconference object