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Techniques Toward High Speed Operation of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

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Nanostructure Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

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In this section some theoretical and experimental techniques will be presented to increase the gain and phase recovery time and speed up the Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) operation. These methods include the regular bulk SOAs and also quantum dot SOAs (QD-SOAs). However one can generalize these techniques to quantum-well SOAs (QW-SOAs) either.

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Rostami, A., Maram, R. (2011). Techniques Toward High Speed Operation of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers. In: Nanostructure Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers. Engineering Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14925-2_3

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