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  • Conference on Optical Fiber Communication/International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication
  • 1993 OSA Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1993),
  • paper ThG5
  • https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.1993.ThG5

Wide-bandwidth integrated optical amplifier/photodetector lossless tap

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Abstract

The ability to simultaneously amplify and detect an optical signal has led to a number of applications for semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA’s), including lossless signal tapping1 and photonic packet switching.2 Two-section (or split-contact) semiconductor amplifiers offer greater photodetector responsivity3 and additional flexibility for signal-processing and signal-modulation techniques4 than do single-contact SOA’s. However, the electrical frequency response of all SOA’s operating as detectors is limited by the carrier lifetime, which varies from a few gigahertz in quantum-well amplifiers to ≤1 GHz in bulk devices. This is a significant limitation in view of the increasingly high data rates carried by lightwave systems.

© 1993 Optical Society of America

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