Reducing crosstalk and signal distortion in wavelength-division multiplexing by increasing carrier lifetimes in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1474-1485

  Xu, Shuangmei ^a   Khurgin, Jacob B ^a   Vurgaftman, Igor ^b   Meyer, Jerry R ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier recombination time; Crosstalk; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CROSSTALK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CARRIER RECOMBINATION TIME; ERROR FREE TRANSMISSION;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0041418229     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.812721     Document Type: Article

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