Spectral characteristics of optical pulse amplification in SOA under assist light injection

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2761-2771

  Wang, Hui ^a   Wu, Jian ^a   Lin, Jintong ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Assist light; Optical pulse amplification; Self phase modulation (SPM); Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Spectral broadening

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SIGNAL DISTORTION; WAVE EQUATIONS;

OPTICAL PULSE AMPLIFICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); SPECTRAL BROADENING;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 26844567236     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.853130     Document Type: Article

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