Saturation and noise properties of quantum-dot optical amplifiers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1527-1539

  Berg, Tommy W ^a   Mørk, Jesper ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; LIGHT EMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; QUANTUM DOT AMPLIFIERS; QUANTUM WELL AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 7444254117     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.835114     Document Type: Article

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