• DocumentCode
    2239466
  • Title

    Picosecond pulse amplification in semiconductor optical amplifiers: A multiple-scale analysis

  • Author

    Premaratne, Malin ; Agrawal, Govind P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Syst. Eng., Monash Univ., Clayton, VIC
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-9 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We propose a systematic way for analyzing gain-recovery dynamics in semiconductor optical amplifiers using a multiple-scale analysis and show that the resulting analytical solution for the amplified pulse agrees well with numerical solutions.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; numerical analysis; semiconductor optical amplifiers; gain-recovery dynamics; multiple-scale analysis; numerical analysis; picosecond pulse amplification; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Charge carrier density; Equations; Modeling; Optical computing; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Stimulated emission; (000.4430) Numerical approximation and analysis; (250.5980) Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-859-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4571595