Improvement of cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier gates by using holding light injection

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 614-623

  Yu, Jianjun ^b,c   Jeppesen, Palle ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c AGERE SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Holding light injection; Numerical simulation; Optical network; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GATES (TRANSISTOR); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

LIGHT INJECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0035335574     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.923474     Document Type: Article

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