Noise and Regeneration in Semiconductor Waveguides With Saturable Gain and Absorption

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 245-255

  Öhman, Filip ^a   Bischoff, Svend ^b   Tromborg, Bjarne ^a   Mørk, Jesper ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Alight Technologies AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

All optical signal processing; Noise; Optical communication; Regeneration; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRAPOLATION; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; NOISE; REGENERATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 1642633912     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.823035     Document Type: Article

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