DocumentCode
1805693
Title
Experimental study of the impact of optical confinement on saturation effects in SOA
Author
Brenot, R. ; Pommereau, F. ; Gouezigou, O. Lee ; Landreau, J. ; Poingt, F. ; Gouezigou, L. Le ; Rousseau, B. ; Lelarge, F. ; Martin, F. ; Duan, G.H.
Author_Institution
Alcatel Res. & Innovation, Cedex, France
Volume
1
fYear
2005
fDate
6-11 March 2005
Abstract
Measurements of SOA with various optical confinements show that low confinement devices are not saturated by ASE. This allows them to have good inversion factors at their input section, which leads to state-of-the-art noise factors.
Keywords
optical saturation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; inversion factor; optical confinement; saturation effect; semiconductor optical amplifier; Charge carrier density; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical materials; Optical noise; Optical saturation; Radiative recombination; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC
Print_ISBN
1-55752-783-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/OFC.2005.192541
Filename
1497621
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