Title :
Reduction of pulse distortion in travelling wave semiconductor optical amplifiers
Author :
Soneira, M.J. ; Gonzalez, J.F. ; Ruiz-Moreno, S. ; Guitart, J.
Author_Institution :
ETSIT, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
The possibility of reducing the gain saturation during the pulse amplification process by means of the compensation of the carrier density variations is investigated. This should be useful in many optical systems and, especially, in high-speed communication systems
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; semiconductor junction lasers; gain saturation; high-speed communication systems; pulse amplification process; pulse distortion reduction; travelling wave semiconductor optical amplifiers; Charge carrier density; Equations; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear distortion; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical pulses; Optical saturation; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Electrotechnical Conference, 1991. Proceedings., 6th Mediterranean
Conference_Location :
LJubljana
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-655-1
DOI :
10.1109/MELCON.1991.161809
