Monolithic integration of spot-size converters with 1.3-μm lasers and 1.55-μm polarization insensitive semiconductor optical amplifiers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1429-1440

  Lestra, Alexis ^a,b,c,d   Emery, Jean Yves ^a,d,e,f  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Ecl Natl Sup de Phys de Grenoble ^*  (France)

^c GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^d Alcatel Alsthom Recherche   (France)

^e ORANGE LABS   (France)

^f SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Beam propagation method; Clamped gain semiconductor optical amplifiers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Spot size converters

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

FABRY-PEROT LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031348689     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.658798     Document Type: Article

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