The gain decompression effect and its applications to very fast wavelength conversions

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 755-757

  Chen, J H ^a,b   Choa, F S ^a,b   Cho, P S ^c   Wey, J S ^a,c   Goldhar, J ^c   Butler, D L ^a,c   Burdge, G L ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Semiconductor optical amplifier; Wavelength converter

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; GAIN CONTROL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

AUGER RECOMBINATION; CARRIER RECOVERY PROCESS; GAIN DECOMPRESSION EFFECT; GAIN RECOVERY PROCESS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0031166176     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.584980     Document Type: Article

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