Methods to speed up the gain recovery of an SOA

Zhi Wang; Yongjun Wang; Qingwen Meng; Rui Zhao

doi:10.1117/12.755310

8 January 2008 Methods to speed up the gain recovery of an SOA

Zhi Wang, Yongjun Wang, Qingwen Meng, Rui Zhao

Proceedings Volume 6838, Optoelectronic Devices and Integration II; 68380R (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.755310
Event: Photonics Asia 2007, 2007, Beijing, China

Abstract

The semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) are employed in all optical networking and all optical signal processing due to the excellent nonlinearity and high speed. The gain recovery time is the key parameter to describe the response speed of the SOA. The relationship between the gain dynamics and a few operation parameters is obtained in this article. A few simple formula and some simulations are demonstrated, from which, a few methods to improve the response speed of the SOA can be concluded as following, lengthening the active area, or lessening the cross area, increasing the injection current, increasing the probe power, operating with a CW holding beam.

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Zhi Wang, Yongjun Wang, Qingwen Meng, and Rui Zhao "Methods to speed up the gain recovery of an SOA", Proc. SPIE 6838, Optoelectronic Devices and Integration II, 68380R (8 January 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.755310

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