Electrically tunable fast light at THz bandwidth using cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 15863-15867

  Pesala, Bala ^a   Sedgwick, Forrest ^b   Uskov, Alexander V ^c   Chang Hasnain, Connie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; TUNING;

ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE FAST LIGHT;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 36749029329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015863     Document Type: Article

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