Novel design for noise controlled semiconductor optical amplifier [PDF]
, 2009 The use of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) in optical communications networks has so far been limited due to their inherent large noise figure (NF) compared to Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifiers.
Bradley, Ann Louise +5 more
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Study of all-optical sampling using a semiconductor optical amplifier
Photonic Sensors, 2016 All-optical sampling is an important research content of all-optical signal processing. In recent years, the application of the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) in optical sampling has attracted lots of attention because of its small volume and ...
Chen Wu +3 more
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Design and Fabrication of a Thin and Micro-Optical Sensor for Rapid Prototyping
Sensors, 2023 Optical sensing offers several advantages owing to its non-invasiveness and high sensitivity. The miniaturization of optical sensors will mitigate spatial and weight constraints, expanding their applications and extending the principal advantages of ...
Nobutomo Morita, Wataru Iwasaki
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Cascaded wavelength conversion by four-wave mixing in a strained semiconductor optical amplifier at 10 Gb/s [PDF]
, 1997 We demonstrate for the first time cascaded wavelength conversion by four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier. Bit-error-rate performance of
Geraghty, David F. +5 more
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Journal of Microwaves, Optoelectronics and Electromagnetic Applications, 2020 Microwave pulse bursts were obtained through optical domain intensity modulated microwave carriers, sliced by cascaded modulator technique, followed by non-linear semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) pre-chirp.
Ernesto M. M. Barrientos +1 more
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Design and Analysis of an O+E-Band Hybrid Optical Amplifier for CWDM Systems
Micromachines, 2022 Broadband amplification in the O+E-band is very desirable nowadays as a way of coping with increasing bandwidth demands. The main issue with doped fiber amplifiers working in this band such as the bismuth-doped fiber amplifier is that they are costly and
Benish Kanwal +7 more
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Semiconductor optical amplifiers: performance and applications in optical packet switching [Invited] [PDF]
, 2004 Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) are a versatile core technology and the basis for the implementation of a number of key functionalities central to the evolution of highly wavelength-agile all-optical networks.
Andonovic, I. +2 more
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Transverse magnetic mode nonreciprocal propagation in an amplifying AlGaInAs/InP optical waveguide isolator. [PDF]
, 2006 International audienceThe design, fabrication, and characterization of an amplifying transverse magnetic ͑TM͒-mode optical waveguide isolator operating at a wavelength of 1300 nm are presented.
Bart Moeyersoon +11 more
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Photonics, 2022 The optical phase conjugation (OPC) process is thoughtfully investigated in a nonlinear bidirectional semiconductor optical amplifier subsystem (SOA), demonstrating the conjugation conversion through the two ports of the SOA, simultaneously. The spectral
Fan Sun +4 more
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Wavelength conversion for WDM communication systems using four-wavemixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers [PDF]
, 1997 Four-wave mixing (FWM) in semiconductor optical amplifiers is an attractive mechanism for wavelength conversion in wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) systems since it provides modulation format and bit rate transparency over wide tuning ranges.
Geraghty, David F. +5 more
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