High saturation power and high gain integrated photoreceivers

Author

Tauke-Pedretti, Anna ; Dummer, Matthew ; Barton, Jonathon S. ; Sysak, Matthew N. ; Raring, James W. ; Coldren, Larry A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mater. Eng., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

17

Issue

10

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2167

Lastpage

2169

Abstract

A novel monolithically integrated semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) receiver is presented. This receiver implements a flared SOA and tapered quantum-well detector. SOAs exhibited 22-dB unsaturated gain and 15.7-dBm output power at the 1-dB gain compression point while the receiver demonstrated 15-GHz bandwidth and -10.5-dBm sensitivity.

Keywords

integrated optoelectronics; optical receivers; quantum well devices; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 15 GHz; 22 dB; gain compression point; integrated photoreceivers; saturation power; semiconductor optical amplifier; tapered quantum-well detector; Detectors; Optical distortion; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical saturation; Optical transmitters; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Photoconductivity; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Offset quantum well; optical receivers; saturation power; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); waveguide photodiodes; wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.854422

Filename

1512308