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Title:	Impact of bias current distribution on the noise figure and power saturation of a multicontact semiconductor optical amplifier
Author:	LENNOX, ROBERT BRADLEY, LOUISE
Sponsor:	Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology Higher Education Authority Enterprise Ireland
Author's Homepage:	http://people.tcd.ie/bradlel
Keywords:	Optics NETWORKS DEVICES
Issue Date:	2011
Publisher:	Optical Society of America
Citation:	Robert Lennox, Kevin Carney, Ramón Maldonado-Basilio, Severine Philippe, A. Louise Bradley, and Pascal Landais, Impact of bias current distribution on the noise figure and power saturation of a multicontact semiconductor optical amplifier, Optics Letters, 36, 13, 2011, 2521-2523
Series/Report no.:	Optics Letters; 36; 13;
Abstract:	We present an experimental investigation of a multicontact semiconductor optical amplifier. This first-generation device allows for direct control of the carrier density profile along the length of the waveguide. This is used to control the device noise figure, with a minimum value of 5 dB observed at a gain of 15 dB for an optimum carrier density profile. The opposite carrier density profile results in an increase of the power saturation by 3 dB.
Description:	PUBLISHED
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2262/59312
Related links:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.002521
Appears in Collections:	Physics (Scholarly Publications)

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