Semiconductor optical amplifiers
- 1 July 1989
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine
- Vol. 5 (4) , 25-30
- https://doi.org/10.1109/101.29899
Abstract
An overview of semiconductor optical amplifier characteristics and their potential applications is presented. The latter consist of nonregenerative repeaters, optical receiver preamplifiers, power amplifiers and amplifier/modulators, general optical gain blocks, narrowband tunable amplifiers, and bistable amplifiers.Keywords
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