Title :
Economics and markets of semiconductor optical amplifiers
Author_Institution :
Alphion Corp., Princeton Junction, NJ, USA
fDate :
June 28 2009-July 2 2009
Abstract :
In telecommunications, SOAs find application in many roles. We will discuss the most important ones, including amplification in access networks, amplification of an optical supervisory channel in long-haul systems, and application as the core gain element in widely tunable lasers, and we will discuss the inter-relationship of the economics of manufacturing and the markets in which the devices are being applied.
Keywords :
industrial economics; laser tuning; semiconductor optical amplifiers; subscriber loops; access network amplification; manufacturing economics; optical supervisory channel; semiconductor optical amplifier; widely tunable laser; Costs; Fiber lasers; Optical devices; Optical fiber devices; Packaging; Semiconductor device manufacture; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices; Virtual manufacturing; economics; fast tunable laser; fiber to the home; gain block; semiconductor optical amplifier;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Azores
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4825-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4827-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2009.5184987
