Title :
Optical gain-bandwidth product of vertical cavity laser amplifiers
Author :
Piprek, J. ; Björlin, E.S. ; Bowers, J.E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
fDate :
3/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Trade-off between amplifier gain and optical bandwidth is investigated in the case of novel long-wavelength vertical-cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers. In agreement with measurements, simple formulas for the gain-bandwidth product are presented. Mirror optimisation promises gain-bandwidth products in the THz range
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; semiconductor optical amplifiers; amplifier gain; mirror optimisation; optical bandwidth; optical gain-bandwidth product; vertical cavity semiconductor optical amplifier;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20010201
