Effect of saturation caused by amplified spontaneous emission on semiconductor optical amplifier performance

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 2042-2043

  Liu, T ^a   Obermann, K ^a   Petermann, K ^a   Girardin, F ^b   Guekos, G ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT EMISSION;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (ASE);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031269179     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19971356     Document Type: Article

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