Amplification of femtosecond pulses over by 18 dB in a quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1023-1025

  Rafailov, E U ^a   Loza Alvarez, P ^a   Sibbett, W ^a   Sokolovskii, G S ^b   Livshits, D A ^b   Zhukov, A E ^b   Ustinov, V M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Femtosecond pulses; Quantum dots (QDs); Semiconductor amplifier

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FEMTOSECOND PULSES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0042024881     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.815362     Document Type: Article

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