Characterization of the eletro-optical response response by semiconductor optical amplifiers - raw data and automation software: supplementary material, article submitted to SBrt 2026

Although this algorithm is intended for the experimental characterization of SOAs, it can obviously be applied to the characterization of other electro-optic devices, such as lasers and modulators. The .h5 files correspond to the FFT data acquired with the oscilloscope. In total, there are four files.

The files whose names contain the term "SOA" refer to the measurements of the electro-optical response of the semiconductor optical amplifiers. In contrast, the files whose names do not contain "SOA" correspond to the back-to-back configuration. In addition, the files containing the term "coherent" in their names correspond to data acquired without spectral leakage.

Conversely, the files without the term "coherent" refer to data measured with spectral leakage. Each file contains 500 traces, with 524,289 samples per trace, resulting in a data matrix with dimensions (500, 524289). For the FFT processing, n_fft = 1048576 was used, with a sampling frequency of fs = 160 GHz and a bin width of 152,587.890625 Hz.