Modeling and measurement of longitudinal gain dynamics in saturated semiconductor optical amplifiers of different length

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1476-1484

  Gutierrez Castrejon R ^b   Schares, Laurent ^a,b   Occhi, Lorenzo ^a,b   Guekos, George ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Charge carrier lifetime; Dynamics; Gain measurement; Optical pulses; Recovery time; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Spontaneous emission

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001629708     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.892569     Document Type: Article

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