Continuous-wave two-photon absorption in a Watt-class semiconductor optical amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 12387-12396

  Juodawlkis, Paul W ^a   Plant, Jason J ^a   Donnelly, Joseph P ^a   Motamedi, Ali ^b   Ippen, Erich P ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDES;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; CONTINUOUS WAVES; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; OUTPUT INTENSITY; QUADRATIC DEPENDENCE; SATURATION OUTPUT POWER; SLAB COUPLED OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIERS; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OPTICS; PHOTON; SEMICONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMPLIFIERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 49149131565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012387     Document Type: Article

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