A Low-Crosstalk Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 392-394

  Lin, Jie ^a   Zhang, Junping ^a   Choa, Fow Sen ^a   Zhao, Xiangjun ^a   Khurgin, Jacob ^b  

^a University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosstalk; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSTALK; ENERGY GAP; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TRANSMITTERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CARRIER DIFFUSION; CARRIER DISTRIBUTION;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 1442288556     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.822235     Document Type: Article

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