Phase Dynamics of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers at 10-40 GHz

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1394-1408

  Schares, Laurent ^a   Schubert, Colja ^b   Schmidt, Carsten ^b   Weber, Hans G ^b   Occhi, Lorenzo ^a,c   Guekos, George ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c EXALOS AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Demultiplexing; Optical data processing; Phase measurement; Phase modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

PHASE DYNAMICS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0242612003     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.818316     Document Type: Article

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