Statistical noise properties of an optical pulse propagating in a nonlinear semiconductor optical amplifier

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 36-44

  Bilenca, Alberto ^a   Eisenstein, Gadi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Noise; Optical pulses; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

OPTICAL PULSES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; STATISTICAL NOISE PROPERTIES;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 12844285730     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.838689     Document Type: Article

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