Owing to advances in fabrication technology and device design, semiconductor optical
amplifiers (SOAs) are evolving as a promising candidate for future optical coherent …

This invaluable book provides a comprehensive treatment of design and applications of
semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA). SOA is an important component for optical …

Four-wave mixing (FWM) in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) is an important tool for
frequency conversion and fast optical switching in all-optical communication networks. We …

Using multipump four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier, we demonstrate a
simple scheme for multicasting an input nonreturn-to-zero 10-Gb/s signal to six different …

Based on extensive numerical calculations, quantum-dot (QD) amplifiers are predicted to
offer higher output power and lower noise figure compared to bulk as well as quantum well …

Recent progress of high-speed all-optical logic gates based on dual semiconductor optical
amplifiers (SOAs) has been reviewed in this article. These schemes include using quantum …

Asemiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is essentially a semiconductor laser with anti-
reflection coated facets that amplifies an injected light signal by means of stimulated …

In this monograph, the authors address the physics and engineering together with the latest
achievements of efficient and compact ultrafast lasers based on novel quantum-dot …

The performance of all-optical XOR gate based on quantum-dot (QD) SOA MZI has been
simulated. The saturation power, optical gain and phase response of a QD SOA has been …

The phase dynamics that occur in bulk InGaAsP-InP semiconductor optical amplifiers
(SOAs) in response to picosecond pulse excitations at 10 and 40 GHz are studied …