Reprint

Applications of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

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September 2018
156 pages
  • ISBN978-3-03897-170-2 (Paperback)
  • ISBN978-3-03897-171-9 (PDF)

This is a Reprint of the Special Issue Applications of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers that was published in

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Summary

Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) are considered a key enabling technology for the design and implementation of photonic circuits, subsystems, and networks. Owing to the attractive features of low power consumption, compactness, broad gain bandwidth and ability for integration with affordable cost, SOAs enjoy continuous popularity as core versatile devices within the optical communications research and industrial sector for the accomplishment of critical and indispensable tasks at fundamental and system-oriented level. Given the establishment and widespread employment of SOAs as technological platform, a Special Issue on ‘Applications of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers’ was introduced and prepared to address, present, and investigate modern applications of SOAs, as well as explore and highlight trends, challenges, and perspectives for motivating efforts toward continuous exploitation of these active modules in a feasible, innovative, and global manner. This book collates the Special Issue papers reporting on significant results obtained from the cutting-edge research conducted by experts in the field. Readers will benefit by acquiring useful knowledge and opening their scientific horizons on SOA-enabled applications, such as direct signal amplification, external modulation, all-optical signal processing, all-optical memories, photonic integrated circuits, photonic switching, optical code division multiple access systems, passive optical networks, etc.]

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Keywords
Optical Content Addressable Memories; Optical Random Access Memories; Address Look Up; Optical Matchline; Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Mach Zehnder Interferometers; photonic integration; monolithic InP platform; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); pattern effect; optical delay interferometer (ODI); microring resonator (MRR); semiconductor optical amplifiers; photonic integrated cross-connect switch; wavelength division multiplexing; optical metropolitan networks; semiconductor optical amplifier; pulse amplitude modulation; noise; photonic integrated circuits; SOA; fast optical switching; re-programmability; packet switching; bit- and power-loading; colorless transmitter; discrete multi-tone (DMT); reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA); WDM-PON; all-optical networks; wavelength conversion devices; tunable lasers; direct modulation; microring resonator; optical notch filter; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier; group velocity dispersion; chirp; optical code division multiple access auto-correlation; fibre propagation; chromatic dispersion; temperature induced dispersion; super-continuum generation; optical code division multiple access transmitter; optical code division multiple access receiver/decoder; semiconductor optical amplifier; n/a