Extremely fast high-gain and low-current SOA by optical speed-up at transparency

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1453-1455

  Dupertuis, M A ^a   Pleumeekers, J L ^b   Hessler, T P ^a   Selbmann, P E ^a   Deveaud, B ^a   Dagens, B ^c   Emery, J Y ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAIN CLAMPED AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL SPEED-UP AT TRANSPARENCY; SATURATION POWER; THREE WAVELENGTH DEVICE; TIME DOMAIN DEMULTIPLEXING;

BANDWIDTH; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; OSCILLATIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TRANSPARENCY; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0034313819     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.887655     Document Type: Article

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