Techniques Toward High Speed Operation of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

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Abstract

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.

Keywords

Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Wavelength Conversion Wavelength Converter Electron Relaxation Time Confinement Factor 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Nanophotonics School of Engineering-Emerging TechnologiesUniversity of TabrizTabrizIran
  2. 2.Faculty of Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of TabrizTabrizIran

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