Strong picosecond optical pulse propagation in semiconductor optical amplifiers at transparency

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1263-1269

  Tang, J M ^a   Shore, K A ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical pulse; Optical pulse amplification; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Ultrafast carrier dynamics

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TRANSPARENCY;

PICOSECOND OPTICAL PULSE PROPAGATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; ULTRAFAST CARRIER DYNAMICS; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR REFRACTION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0032121901     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.687871     Document Type: Article

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