Design and analysis of large-area vertical-cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers with anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguide

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 526-535

  Chen, N S ^a,b   Yu, S F ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide (ARROW); Laser amplifiers; Semiconductor laser modeling, spatial hole burning (SHB); Thermal lensing; Vertical cavity semiconductor optical amplifier (VCSOA)

Indexed keywords

ANTIRESONANT REFLECTING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE (ARROW); SPATIAL HOLE BURNING (SHB); THERMAL LENSING; VERTICAL CAVITY SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (VCSOA);

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33947615155     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.860145     Document Type: Article

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