Characterization of butt-joint ingaasp waveguides and their application to 1310 nm DBR-type MOW gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifiers

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E80-C, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 675-680

  Binsma, J M ^a   Thijs, P J ^a   Van Dongen, T ^a   Jansen, E J ^a   Staring, A M ^a   Van Den Hoven, G N ^a   Tiemeijer, L F ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Butt joint; Gain clamped semiconductor optical amplifier; INP; Photonic integration

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031147579     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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