An ultra-band semiconductor optical amplifier having an extremely high penalty-free output power of 23 dBm achieved with quantum dots

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1614-1616

  Akiyama, Tomoyuki ^a,b   Ekawa, Mitsuru ^a,b   Sugawara, Mitsuru ^c   Kawaguchi, Kenichi ^a,b   Sudo, Hisao ^a,b   Kuramata, Akito ^a,b   Ebe, Hiroji ^c   Arakawa, Yasuhiko ^c  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^b OITDA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical amplifiers; Quantum dots (QDs); Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRONS; FERMI LEVEL; GAIN CONTROL; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

GAIN SATURATION; HIGH PENALTY-FREE OUTPUT POWER; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOAS);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 23844434230     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.851884     Document Type: Article

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