We propose a new configuration for semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs), called optical speed-up at transparency (OSAT), which allows to speed up the gain recovery of SOAs and their saturation power without sacrificing the gain, nor increasing the applied current, The proposed configuration is particularly well-suited for high-speed WDM or OTDM applications, It consists of an optical cw-signal injected at the transparency point of the SOA, This setup is potentially integrable on a single chip, and still relatively flexible once the device is realized.
Title
Extremely fast high-gain and low-current SOA by optical speed-up at transparency
Published in
Ieee Photonics Technology Letters
Volume
12
Issue
11
Pages
1453-1455
Date
2000
ISSN
1041-1135
Note
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Record creation date
2007-08-31