Abstract
An active multi-mode-interferometer semiconductor optical amplifier concept is proposed and demonstrated. In comparison to regular waveguide SOAs, the concept for this amplifier showed improvements of 2dB in gain and 5dB in saturation output.
© 2000 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Kiichi Hamamoto, Kouichi Naniwae, Emilio Gini, and Hans Melchior
ThN2 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2002
T. Yamatoya, F. Koyama, and K. Iga
OMD12 Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications (OAA) 2000
Bart H. Verbeek and Leo H. Spiekman
CThG3 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 2000