Self-phase modulation in semiconductor optical amplifiers: Impact of amplified spontaneous emission

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1396-1403

  Baveja, Prashant P ^a   Maywar, Drew N ^b   Kaplan, Aaron M ^c   Agrawal, Govind P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amplified spontaneous emission (ASE); gain recovery; optical signal processing; self phase modulation (SPM); semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); spectral broadening

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; DRIVE CURRENTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FREQUENCY CHIRP; GAIN RECOVERY; GAIN-SWITCHED; NONLINEAR PHASE SHIFT; PEAK POWER; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PULSE PROPAGATION; RECOVERY TIME; SPECTRAL BROADENING; THEORETICAL MODELS;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; MODULATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHASE SHIFT; RECOVERY; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

SELF PHASE MODULATION;

EID: 77955133016     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2010.2048743     Document Type: Article

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