Saturation induced by picosecond pulses in semiconductor optical amplifiers
- 1 April 1997
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
- Vol. 14 (4) , 761-770
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josab.14.000761
Abstract
We study the amplification of picosecond pulses in a semiconductor optical amplifier, including the effect of carrier heating and spectral-hole burning. Under simplifying approximations we obtain an analytical expression for the amplifier output to a given picosecond pulse input. The effect of the intraband dynamics becomes important for pulses below a critical pulse width that is related to the K factor that characterizes the modulation properties of semiconductor lasers. The critical pulse width ranges from a few picoseconds to 20 ps in most cases.Keywords
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