Numerical Simulation of Temporal and Spectral Variation of Gain and Phase Recovery in Quantum-Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 405-413

  Kim, Jungho ^a   Meuer, Christian ^b   Bimberg, Dieter ^b   Eisenstein, Gadi ^b,c  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Quantum dot; semiconductor optical amplifiers; ultrafast process

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008008488     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2031311     Document Type: Article

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