An ultrawide-band semiconductor optical amplifier having an extremely high penalty-free output power of 23 dBm achieved with quantum dots

Author

Akiyama, Tomoyuki ; Ekawa, Mitsuru ; Sugawara, Mitsuru ; Kawaguchi, Kenichi ; Sudo, Hisao ; Kuramata, Akito ; Ebe, Hiroji ; Arakawa, Yasuhiko

Author_Institution

Fujitsu Labs. Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

17

Issue

8

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1614

Lastpage

1616

Abstract

A semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) having a gain of >25 dB, noise figure of <5 dB, and 3-dB saturation output power of >19 dBm, over the record widest bandwidth of 90 nm among all kinds of optical amplifiers, and also having a penalty-free output power of 23 dBm, the record highest among all the SOAs, was realized by using quantum dots.

Keywords

laser noise; quantum dot lasers; semiconductor device noise; semiconductor optical amplifiers; extremely high output power; noise figure; optical amplifier gain; penalty-free output power; quantum dots; saturation output power; semiconductor optical amplifier; ultrawide-band optical amplifier; Bandwidth; Noise figure; Optical noise; Optical recording; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Quantum dots; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultraviolet sources; Optical amplifiers; quantum dots (QDs); semiconductor lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.851884

Filename

1471752