The consequences of tailoring the longitudinal carrier density along the active layer of a
multi-contact bulk semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) are investigated using a rate …

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 …

In this letter, we address one of the essential processes to consider in long Semiconductor
Optical Amplifiers (SOAs) analysis, which is the noise. Particularly, we investigate the impact …

We have studied the noise properties of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) under the
injection of a pump laser. The laser wavelength is set within the transparency region of SOA …

Experimental characterisation of a novel noise-controlled semiconductor optical amplifier
(NCSOA) is presented. The design utilises grooves etched parallel to the active waveguide …

We present a numerical study of the noise of conventional and gain-clamped semiconductor
optical amplifiers (SOAs), using a detailed device model. The model makes use of a density …

A time-domain model is implemented for gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifiers (GC-
SOAs) based on a combination of the separated traveling-wave equations and effective …

One of the important devices for developing optical networks is the semiconductor optical
amplifier (SOA). SOAs are utilized in a wide range to accomplish different purposes. In this …

In this work, we present a small-signal analysis which reveals its usefulness to explain the
evolution of the optical frequency responses obtained at the outputs of two-cascaded …

We presented and discussed experimental and numerical results on the effective alpha
factor in bulk SOAs. We showed that the magnitude of alpha factor increases by increasing …