Simple model for optical pulse propagation in a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Connelly, M.J. ; O´Riordan, C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Opt. Commun. Res. Group, Univ. of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

fYear

2010

fDate

6-9 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

38

Abstract

A simple time-domain model is presented that can predict optical pulse propagation in reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers (RSOAs). The RSOA saturation energy, effective lifetime and material gain coefficient parameters used in the model are determined using experimental measurements of the input and output pulse temporal profiles to the RSOA and Levenberg-Marquardt parameter extraction algorithm. The model accurately predicts the propagation of 50.4 ps pulsewidth high-power pulses in the RSOA.

Keywords

light propagation; light reflection; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Levenberg-Marquardt parameter extraction algorithm; effective lifetime; material gain coefficient; optical pulse propagation; pulsewidth high-power pulses; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier; saturation energy; time-domain model; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Optical reflection; Optical wavelength conversion; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2010 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

2158-3234

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7016-7

Electronic_ISBN

2158-3234

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NUSOD.2010.5595677

Filename

5595677