Noise characteristics of semiconductor-optical amplifiers used for wavelength conversion via cross-gain and cross-phase modulation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 312-314

  Obermann, K ^b   Kindt, S ^b   Breuer, D ^b   Petermann, K ^a,b   Schmidt, C ^c   Diez, S ^c   Weber, H G ^c  

^a IEEE

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

All optical wavelength conversion by semiconductor optical amplifiers; Noise of nonlinear semiconductor optical amplifiers; Nonlinear signal processing with semiconductor optical amplifiers; Optical frequency conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; COUNTER PROPAGATING INJECTION; CROSS GAIN MODULATION; CROSS PHASE MODULATION; NOISE POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; NONLINEAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031103719     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.556057     Document Type: Article

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