Two-wave competition in ultralong semiconductor optical amplifiers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1260-1267

  Bramann, Gero ^a   Wünsche, Hans Jürgen ^b   Busolt, Ulrike ^c   Schmidt, Christian ^a   Schlak, Michael ^a   Sartorius, Bernd ^a   Nolting, Hans Peter ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FURTWANGEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing (FWM); Nonlinear wave propagation; Optical saturation; Optical signal processing; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA)

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER TUNING; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MODULATION FREQUENCY; NONLINEAR WAVE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL SATURATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PUMP CURRENT; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA); TWO-WAVE COMPETITION; WAVELENGTH DETUNING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 26844517429     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.854600     Document Type: Article

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