Operational design on high-speed semiconductor optical amplifier with assist light for application to wavelength converters using cross-phase modulation

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 313-323

  Matsumoto, Atsushi ^a   Nishimura, Kohsuke ^c   Utaka, Katsuyuki ^b   Usami, Masashi ^c  

^a ROHM CO LTD   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross gain modulation (xgm); Cross phase modulation (xpm); Gain recovery; Nonlinearity; Semiconductor optical amplifier (soa); Transfer matrix method (tmm) analysis; Wavelength converter

Indexed keywords

CROSS GAIN MODULATION; CROSS PHASE MODULATION; GAIN RECOVERY; NON-LINEARITY; WAVELENGTH CONVERTER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHASE MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SPEED;

TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

EID: 33845601069     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2006.869809     Document Type: Article

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