Noise characteristics of nonlinear semiconductor optical amplifiers in the Gaussian limit

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1801-1808

  Shtaif, Mark ^b   Eisenstein, Gadi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CALCULATIONS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ALL OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; GAUSSIAN LIMIT; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0030269885     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.538787     Document Type: Article

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