80-ps and 4-ns Pulse-Pumped Gains in a GaP-AlGaP Semiconductor Raman Amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 395-397

  Saito, Shigeki ^a   Suto, Ken ^a   Kimura, Tomoyuki ^b   Nishizawa, Jun Ichi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SEMICONDUCTOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

GaP; Optical amplifiers; Optical communication; Optical waveguide; Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; BANDWIDTH; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RAMAN SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

RAMAN GAINS; SEMICONDUCTOR RAMAN AMPLIFIERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 1442337588     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.823093     Document Type: Article

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