A highly important area where semiconductors and semimetals technology plays a major
role is that of optical Sensing devices. Receiving initial impetus because of infrared detector …

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

Simultaneous lasing at up to 24 wavelengths is demonstrated in an erbium-doped fiber-ring
laser using a simple design. This result is achieved using a low-loss cavity, controlled …

We present a simple, yet powerful method for calculating nonlinear pulse propagation and
pulse interaction in active semiconductor waveguides. The model is based on the density …

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 …

Studies of active waveguides with short optical pulses provide information about
fundamental carrier dynamics and nonlinear processes relevant to high speed modulation …

The traveling-wave equations of four-wave mixing in semiconductor amplifiers are solved
analytically including saturation of the amplifier. Excellent agreement is obtained with …

We propose and demonstrate an all-optical XOR gate at 20 Gb/s using four-wave mixing in a
semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), with return-to-zero differential phase-shifted keying …

This review discusses the physical mechanisms of absorptive and dispersive nonlinearity in
amplifiers resulting from interband and intraband electron transitions, with an assessment of …

Conversion efficiency to longer wavelengths in four-wave-mixing-based wavelength
conversion in optical semiconductor amplifiers is generally much lower than that in the …