High-speed small-signal cross-gain modulation in quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers at 1.3 μm

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 749-756

  Meuer, Christian ^a   Kim, Jungho ^b   Laemmlin, Matthias ^a   Liebich, Sven ^a   Eisenstein, Gadi ^c   Bonk, Rene ^d   Vallaitis, Thomas ^d   Leuthold, Jürg ^d   Kovsh, Alexey ^e   Krestnikov, Igor ^e   Bimberg, Dieter ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^e INNOLUME GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross gain modulation (XGM); Quantum dot (QD); Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Indexed keywords

CARRIER DEPLETION; CROSS GAIN MODULATION; CROSS-GAIN MODULATION (XGM); DETUNING; GAIN SATURATION; HIGH-SPEED; LARGE-SIGNAL; NARROW BANDS; PULSE BROADENING; PUMP-AND-PROBE; QUANTUM DOT (QD); QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; QUANTUM DOTS; QUANTUM WELL DEVICE; SMALL SIGNAL; SPECTRAL-HOLE BURNING; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

BANDWIDTH; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; MODULATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 67650869736     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2012395     Document Type: Article

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