Fast and efficient dynamic WDM semiconductor optical amplifier model

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4353-4365

  Mathlouthi, Walid ^a   Lemieux, Pascal ^a   Salsi, Massimiliano ^b   Vannucci, Armando ^b   Bononi, Alberto ^b   Rusch, Leslie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Optical pulse amplification; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL PULSE AMPLIFICATION; RESERVOIR MODEL; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; TIME-RESOLVED GAIN TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34548413892     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.884217     Document Type: Article

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