Improvement of saturation output power in a semiconductor laser amplifier through pumping light injection
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Vol. 8 (1) , 58-59
- https://doi.org/10.1109/68.475777
Abstract
Pumping light injection for semiconductor laser amplifiers is proposed as an effective way to improve their saturation output power. An experiment demonstrates 4.9 dB improvement in saturation output power for 1546 nm signal light using 1480 nm pumping light.Keywords
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