Fabrication of traveling-wave semiconductor optical amplifiers for optical switching applications

Daniel Xiaoxing Zhu; Serge Dubovitsky; William H. Steier; Denis Tishinin; Paul Daniel Dapkus; Kushant Uppal

doi:10.1117/12.328739

4 December 1998 Fabrication of traveling-wave semiconductor optical amplifiers for optical switching applications

Daniel Xiaoxing Zhu, Serge Dubovitsky, William H. Steier, Denis Tishinin, Paul Daniel Dapkus, Kushant Uppal

Proceedings Volume 3491, 1998 International Conference on Applications of Photonic Technology III: Closing the Gap between Theory, Development, and Applications; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.328739
Event: 1998 International Conference on Applications of Photonic Technology, 1998, Ottawa, Canada

Abstract

High quality traveling-wave semiconductor optical amplifiers were designed and fabricated for all-optical switching applications. We obtained 21 dB small signal gain with 0.16 dB gain ripple. Measured residual reflectivity was 5 X 10^-5 and the 3-dB gain bandwidth as wide as 70 nm. Our results show careful wavelength selection is required in order to match the amplifiers gain peak wavelength to the desired operating wavelength of the optical switches.

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Daniel Xiaoxing Zhu, Serge Dubovitsky, William H. Steier, Denis Tishinin, Paul Daniel Dapkus, and Kushant Uppal "Fabrication of traveling-wave semiconductor optical amplifiers for optical switching applications", Proc. SPIE 3491, 1998 International Conference on Applications of Photonic Technology III: Closing the Gap between Theory, Development, and Applications, (4 December 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.328739

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