SHARAIHA Ammar

Ammar Sharaiha

was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1956. He received the M. Sc. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Rennes I, France in 1981 and 1984 respectively. He joined the École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest, France (ENIB) as Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) in 1989 ; later, as Full Professor (Professeur des Universités) in 2001. Since september 2024, he is retired and Professeur Emérite at l'ENIB. He is author or co-author of more than 200 international publications or communications and 6 patents. Pr. Sharaiha’s current research interests are mainly in the areas of high-speed optical-communication systems and Optical Microwave applications using semiconductor-optical amplifiers.

 Prinncipal Publications:

[1].   M. Franco, P. Morel, A. Gardelein and A. Sharaiha, "Towards Cryophotonics: Experimental Characterization of SOA at Cryogenic Temperatures," in IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1-10, Feb. 2023, Art no. 1500409, doi: 10.1109/JPHOT.2022.3231651.

 [2].   Michael J. Connelly, Javier Romero-Vivas, Pascal Morel, Ammar Sharaiha, Frédéric Pommereau, Catherine Fortin, “Dynamic power and chirp measurements of a quantum dash semiconductor optical amplifier amplified picosecond pulses using a linear pulse characterization technique”, Optical and Quantum Electronics ( IF 2.794 ), 2022-11-24 , DOI:10.1007/s11082-022-04301-7;

 [3].   Noor Hamdash, Ammar Sharaiha, Thierry Rampone , Cédric Quendo, Noham Martin, and Denis Le Berre, “Small-Signal Analysis in two calculation sections and Experimental Validation of Up-Converted Coherent Population Oscillations in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers”, IEEE Photonics Journal, Volume: 13, Issue: 4, Aug. 2021.

 [4].   Dimitrios Kastritsis, Thierry Rampone, Maeva Franco, Kyriakos E. Zoiros, Ammar Sharaiha, “SOA-MZI photonic sampler with post-distortion linearization technique”, Optics Express, Vol. 29, No. 15, 19 July 2021.

 [5].   Zoe V. Rizou, Kyriakos E. Zoiros, Thierry Rampone, Ammar Sharaiha, « Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Direct Modulation Capability Enhancement Using Birefringent Fiber Loop” Journals Applied Sciences Vol. 10, Issue 15, 2020.

 [6].   Kyriakos E. Zoiros, Dimitrios Kastritsis, Thierry Rampone, Ammar Sharaiha, “Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Pattern Effect Compensation with Birefringent Fiber Loop” Opt Quant Electron 52, 366, July 2020.

 [7].   Dimitrios Kastritsis, Thierry Rampone, Kyriakos E. Zoiros, Ammar Sharaiha, “Modulation and Switching Architecture Performances for Frequency Up-conversion of Complex-Modulated Data Signals based on a SOA-MZI Photonic Sampling Mixer” Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 38, Issue: 19, pp. 5375 – 5385, Oct.1, 1 2020.

 [8].   Konstantinos D. Paschaloudis, Peter C. Allilomes, Kyriacos I. Zoiros, George A. Kyriacou, Constantinos L. Zekios, Stavros Iezekiel, Ghisa Laura Telescu, Ammar Sharaiha, “An Eigenanalysis Study of Tunable THz and Photonic Unbounded Structures Employing Finite Element Method”, IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol. 11, Issue: 5, Oct. 2019.

 [9].   Noor Hamdash, Ammar Sharaiha, Thierry Rampone , Cédric Quendo, Noham Martin, and Denis Le Berre, “Optically Controlled RF Phase Shifts in SOAs by adding the XGM Response of an Optical Signal”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 31, n°. 13, July 1, p. 1060-1063, 2019.

 [10]. Haidar Taki, Stéphane Azou, Ali Hamie, Pascal Morel, Ali Al Housseini, Ali Alaeddine, Ammar Sharaiha, “Chirping Techniques for Enhancing the Performance of SOA-based UWB over Fiber Systems: An Experimental Demonstration” International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Vol. 94, Pages 221-225, September 2018.

 [11].                                Hassan Termos, Thierry Rampone, Ammar Sharaiha “Sampling rate influence in Up and Down Mixing of QPSK and OFDM signals using a SOConstantinos L. ZekiosA-MZI in a Differential Configuration”, Electronics Letters, DOI: 10.1049/el.2018.1321, volume: 54 , Pages 990 - 991 Issue: 16 , August 2018.

 [12]. Bárbara Dumas Feris, Philippe Gravey, Pascal Morel, Marie-Laure Moulinard, Michel Morvan, Ammar Sharaiha “Dimensioning of 112G Optical-Packet-Switching-Based Interconnects for Energy-Efficient Data Centers” IEEE Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (IEEE JOCN). Vol. 9, Iss. 4, B124-B136, April 1, 2017.

 [13]. Tammam Motaweh, Pascal Morel, Ammar Sharaiha, Romain. Brenot, Agnès Verdier, Mikael Guégan “Wideband gain MQW-SOA modeling and saturation power improvement in a tri-electrode configuration” OSA/IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, DOI 10.1109/JLT.2017.2657821, Vol. 35, Issue: 10, May 15, 2017.

 [14]. Tammam Motaweh, Ammar Sharaiha, Laura Ghisaa, Pascal Morel, Mikael. Guégan, Romain Brenot, Agnès Verdier “Performing broadband optical transmission links by appropriate spectral combination of broadband SOA gain, Raman amplification and transmission fiber losses” Optics communications, Volume 385, Pages 66–70, 15 February 2017.

 [15]. Haidar Taki, Stéphane Azou, Ali Hamié, Ali Al Housseini, Ali Alaeddine, Ammar Sharaiha, “On Phaser-Based Processing of Impulse Radio UWB over Fiber Systems Employing SOA” Optical Fiber Technology, Volume 36, Pages 33–40, July 2017.

 [16]. Haidar Taki, Stéphane Azou, Ali Hamie, Ali Al Housseini, Ali Alaeddine, Ammar Sharaiha, « Simple Pre-distortion Schemes for Improving the Power Efficiency of SOA-Based IR-UWB over Fiber Systems » Optics Communications, Elsevier, volume 382, Pages 225–231, 1 January 2017.

 [17]. Michael J. Connelly, Lukasz Krzczanowicz, Pascal Morel, Ammar Sharaiha, Francois Lelarge, Romain Brenot, Siddharth Joshi, Sophie Barbet, “40 Gb/s NRZ-DQPSK data wavelength conversion with amplitude regeneration using four-wave mixing in a quantum dash semiconductor optical amplifier” Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume 9, Issue 3, pp 341–345, September 2016.

 [18]. Nicolas Beldiceanu, Barbara Dumas Feris, Philippe Gravey, Sabbir Hasan, Claude Jard, Thomas Ledoux, Yunbo Li, Didier, Lime, Gilles Madi-Wamba, Jean-Marc Menaud, Pascal Morel, Michel Morvan, Marie-Laure Moulinard, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Jean-Louis Pazat, Olivier Roux, Ammar Sharaiha. “Towards energy-proportional Clouds partially powered by renewable energy. Computing” Springer Verlag, pp.20, June 2016.

 [19].                                Haidar Taki, Stéphane Azou, Ali Hamie, Ali Al Housseini, Ali Alaeddine, Ammar Sharaiha, “Improving the Power Efficiency of SOA-based UWB over Fiber Systems via Pulse Shape Randomization” Optical Fiber Technology, Elsevier, 31, pp.161-167, 2016.

 [20].                  Hassan Termos, Thierry Rampone, Ammar Sharaiha, Ali Hamié, Ali Alaeddine, « All-Optical Radiofrequency Sampling Mixer Based on a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Using a Standard and a Differential Configuration », Journal of IEEE/OSA Lightwave Technology, Vol. 34, No. 20, pp. 4688-4695 October 15, 2016

 [21].                  S. Bejan, S. Azou, P. Morel, C. Diouf, M. Telescu, N. Tanguy, A. Sharaiha ‘A joint Linearization/Companding Approach for Improving a CO-OFDM Transmitter’, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, VOL. 27, NO. 20, pp. 2162-2165, October 15, 2015

 [22].                  Stéphane Azou, Serban Bejan, Pascal Morel, Ammar Sharaiha, “Performance Improvement of a SOA-based Coherent Optical-OFDM Transmission System via Nonlinear Companding Transforms” Optics Communications, 336, pp.177–183, 2015.

 [23].                  Ali Hamié, Mohamad Hamzé, Haidar Taki, Layaly Makouk, Ammar Sharaiha, Ali Aladine, Ali Al Housseini, Elias Giacoumidis and J.M.Tang “Two cascaded SOAs used as intensity modulators for adaptively modulated optical OFDM signals in optical access networks”, Optics Express Vol. 22, Iss. 13, pp. 15763–15777, 2014

 [24].                  Thierry Rampone, Ayman Hallal, Hamidreza Khaleghi, Ammar Sharaiha, “Down-conversion gain of an optical radiofrequency mixer based on optical bandpass sampling using a SOA-MZI” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 26, No. 4, February 15, 2014.

 [25].                  Hamidreza Khaleghi, Pascal Morel, Ammar Sharaiha, Thierry Rampone, “Experimental Validation of Numerical Simulations and Performance Analysis of a Coherent Optical-OFDM Transmission System Employing a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier," IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31, N°. 1, p. 161- 170, January 1, 2013.

 [26].                  Thierry Rampone, Alexandra Lagrost, Ammar Sharaiha, Ali Kabalan, “Optical Radiofrequency Signal Mixing by All-Optical Sampling Based on a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Mach-Zehnder Interferometer” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, VOL. 31, NO. 23, p. 3597-3602, December 1, 2013

 [27].                  Thierry Rampone, Alexandra Lagrost, Ali Kabalan, Ammar Sharaiha, “Conversion gain characterization of an optical radiofrequency signal mixing by all-optical sampling based on a SOA-MZI” Electronics Letters, Volume 48, issue 24, p. 1542 – 1543, November 2012.

 [28].                  Hamidreza Khaleghi, Ammar Sharaiha, Thierry Rampone, Pascal Morel, Mikael Guégan, “SOA Optical Amplifiers in Coherent Optical-OFDM Systems” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 560-562, April 2012.

 [29].                  Hamidreza Khaleghi, Pascal Morel, Ammar Sharaiha, Thierry Rampone, Mikael Guégan, "Numerical Analysis of SOA performance over a wide optical bandwidth in a CO-OFDM transmission system", Optical and Quantum Electronics, vol. 44, pp. 205–212, 2012.

 [30].                  Ali Hamié, Mohamad. Hamzé, J. L. Wei, Ammar Sharaiha, J. M. Tang, "Theoretical investigations of quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier enabled intensity modulation of adaptively modulated optical OFDM signals in IMDD PON systems", OPTICS EXPRESS, Vol. 19, No. 25, pp. 25696-25711, 5 December 2011.

 [31].                  Christian Bohémond, Thierry Rampone, Ammar Sharaiha, "Performances of a Photonic Microwave Mixer Based on Cross Gain Modulation in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier", Journal of Lightwave Technology, VOL. 29, NO. 16, pp. 2402-2409,  AUGUST 15, 2011

 [32].                  Christian Bohémond, Ammar Sharaiha, Thierry Rampone, Hamidresa Khaleghi, "Electro-optical Radiofrequency Mixer Based on a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier", Electronics Letters, volume 47, issue 5, March 2011.

 [33].                  Christian Bohémond, Pascal Morel, Ammar Sharaiha, Thierry Rampone, and Benoit Pucel, "Experimental and Simulation Analysis of the Third-Order Input Interception Point in an All-Optical RF Mixer Based on a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier", Journal of Lightwave Technology, VOL. 29, NO. 1, pp. 91-96, January 1, 2011

 [34].                  Pascal Morel, Ammar Sharaiha “Wideband Time-Domain Transfer Matrix Model Equivalent Circuit for Short Pulse Propagation in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers”, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Volume: 45, Issue: 2. pp. 103-116, Feb. 2009.

 [35].                  Ali Hamié, Ammar Sharaiha, Mikael Guégan, Jean Le Bihan, Adnan Hamzé “Small-signal analysis of two cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers in a counterpropagating configuration”, Optics Communications, 281, pp. 5183–5188, 2008.

 [36].                   Mohammad Tariaki, Frédéric Boulvert, Florian F.L. Bentivegna, Mikael Guégan, Josaph Topomondzo, Ammar Sharaiha, Fabrice Pellen, Bernard Le Jeune “A Stokes-based spectro-polarimetric analysis of the amplified spontaneous emission in a semiconductor optical amplifier”, Journal of the European Optical Society, JEOS, 2, 07025, August 7, 2007.

[37].                  Ali Hamié, Ammar Sharaiha,  Mikael Guégan, Jean Le Bihan, A. Hamzé “All-Optical Logic OR Gate Using two Cascaded Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters , MOTL, pp. 1568 – 1570, 26 Apr 2007.

 [38].                  Frédéric Ginovart, Mohamad Amaya, Ammar Sharaiha “Semiconductor optical amplifier studies under optical injection at the transparency wavelength”, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol 25, N°3, pp. 840-849, March 2007.

 [39].                  Pascal Morel, Ammar Sharaiha, Romain Brenot, Bruno Thédrez, “ Wideband gain and noise figure modelling in SOA”, Optical and Quantum Electronics, vol 38, pp. 231–236, 2006.

 [40].                  Ammar Sharaiha, Joseph Topomondzo, Pascal Morel, “All-optical AND-NOR gate with three inputs based on cross gain modulation in a semi-conductor optical amplifier”, Optics Communications 265, pp. 322–325, 2006.

 [41].                  Mohamad Amaya, Ammar Sharaiha, “Crosstalk Pattern Penalty Reduction at 2.5 Gb/s in an SOA Employing an Assist Light around Gain Transparency wavelength”, Optics Communications 261, pp. 240–244, 2006.

 [42].                  A. Zatni, M. Elhaziti, A. Rhattoy, A. Sharaiha, J. Le Bihan, “Etude de la génération d’impulsions brèves d’un laser DFB à trios contrôles de phases (3QWS-DF) », Annales des Télécommunications, Vol 60, N°5-6, pp.698-718. May 2005.

 [43].                  Ali Hamié, Ammar Sharaiha, Mikael Guégan, Jean Le Bihan “All-optical inverted and non-inverted wavelength conversion using two cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, VOL. 17, NO. 6, 1229-1231, June 2005.

 [44].                  Mohamad Amaya, Ammar Sharaiha, Frédéric Ginovart, “Comparison between co- and counter-propagatif optical injection near the transparency wavelength on SOA static and dynamic performances”, Optics Communications 246, pp. 67–71, 2005.

 [45].                  Ammar Sharaiha, Ali Hamié, “Comprehensive analysis of two cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers for all-optical switching operation”, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol.22, n°3, pp. 850-858, March 2004.

 [46].                  Ali Hamié, Ammar Sharaiha, Mikael Guégan, "Demonstration of an all-optical logic OR gate using gain saturation in SOA" Microwave and Optical Technology Letters , MOTL, vol 39, No. 1, pp. 39-42, Octobre 2003.

 [47].                  Mikael Guégan, Mohamad Amaya, Ammar Sharaiha, Jean Le Bihan, "Modélisation petit-signal de la réponse fréquentielle obtenue par photodétection avec un amplificateur optique à semi-conducteur" J. Phys IV France 12, Pr5 199-200, 2002.

 [48].                  Ali Hamié, Ammar Sharaiha, Mikael Guegan, Benoit Pucel, "All optical logic Nor gate using cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol 14, n° 10, pp. 1439-1442, Octobre 2002.

 [49].                  Ammar Sharaiha, Mikael Guégan, “Analysis of sign reversal  of the photodetected signal response in a multi-electrode semiconductor optical amplifier”, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol 19, No 8, pp 1185-1193, 2001.

 [50].                  Yann Boucher, Ammar Sharaiha, “Spectral properties of amplified spontaneous emission in semiconductor optical amplifiers”, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol 36, n°6, pp 708-720,  June 2000.

 [51].                  Ammar Sharaiha, Mikael Guégan “Equivalent circuit model for multi-electrode semiconductor optical amplifiers and analysis of in-line photodetection in bi-directional transmission”, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol 18, n°5, pp 700-707; May 2000.

 [52].                  Fabrice. Marchèse, Hongwu Li, Ammar Sharaiha, Jean Le Bihan, “Optical data inversion by locking mode competition” Electronics Letters, vol. 35, No. 16, 1999.

 [53].                  B.S. Rawat, Youssef Naciri, K. Yasumoto, Hongwu Li, Ammar Sharaiha, Jean Le Bihan, “Analysis of an optical controlled nonlinear directional coupler”, Journal of Optical Communications, vol. 20, no5, pp. 162-167, 1999.

 [54].                  Ammar Sharaiha, “Distortion analysis of the Photodetection and Gain Spectral Responses of a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol 10, n° 9, pp. 1301-1303, September 1998.

 [55].                  Ammar Sharaiha, Mikael Guégan “Analysis of selective photodetection spectrum response of a semiconductor optical amplifier”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, MOTL, vol 19, December, 20/12/1998.

 [56].                   Ammar Sharaiha, "Harmonic and intermodulation distortion analysis by perturbation and harmonic balance methods for in-line photodetection in a semiconductor optical amplifier", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 10, n° 3, pp. 421-423, March 1998.

 [57].                   Thierry Rampone, Hongwu Li, Ammar Sharaiha, "Semiconductor optical amplifier used as in-line optical detector with conservation of the signal DC-component", IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, JLT, vol 16, n°7, July 1998.

 [58].                   Thierry Rampone, Ammar Sharaiha, Hongwu Li, "Two-section semiconductor laser amplifier used as photodetector with DC component consideration", Electronics Letters, vol.33 No. 8, pp. 701-702, April 1997.

 [59].    Ammar Sharaiha, Hongwu Li, Fabrice Marchèse, Jean Le Bihan, "All-optical logic NOR gate using a semiconductor laser amplifier", Electronics letters, vol. 33 No. 4, pp. 323-324, Feb 1997.

 [60].   Ammar Sharaiha, Jean Le Bihan, “Harmonic balance analysis of IM harmonic distortion in semiconductor lasers” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, MOTL, vol 14, n° 6, pp 327-330, April 1997.

 [61].    Ammar Sharaiha, Hongwu Li, Jean Le Bihan, François Ropars, “Analysis of the operation of a bidirectional bus made of two semiconductor laser amplifiers running up to 1.555Gb/s”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters , MOTL, vol 13, n° 4, pp 240-242, Nov 1996.

 [62].    Hongwu Li, Ammar Sharaiha, R. Auffret, Jean Le Bihan, “High-bit rate bidirectional optical transmission with two semiconductor laser amplifiers”, Electronics letters, vol.30 No. 6, pp. 510-511, March 1994.