Time-domain computer simulator of the nonlinear response of semiconductor optical amplifiers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1072-1080

  Cassioli, Dajana ^a,b   Scotti, Simona ^b   Mecozzi, Antonio ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

^d Optical Commun Div Fondazione U   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SET THEORY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

NONLINEAR RESPONSE; OPTICAL MIXING; OPTICAL PROPAGATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR WAVEGUIDE; SIMULATION SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SIMULINK; SPECTRAL HOLE BURNING; TIME DOMAIN COMPUTER SIMULATOR;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0034273160     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.863960     Document Type: Article

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