Advances in Optical Amplifiers

Advances in Optical Amplifiers Preface......Page 1
Part 1......Page 17
01_Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers......Page 19
02_Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Nonlinearities and Their Applications for Next Generation of Optical Networks......Page 43
03_A Frequency Domain Systems Theory Perspective for Semiconductor Optical Amplifier - Mach Zehnder Interferometer Circuitry in Routing and Signal Processing Applications......Page 69
Part 2......Page 95
04_Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers and their Application for All Optical Wavelength Conversion......Page 97
05_The Application of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers in All-optical Wavelength Conversion and Radio Over Fiber Systems......Page 121
06_Impact of Pump-Probe Time Delay on the Four Wave Mixing Conversion Efficiency in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers......Page 145
07_Pattern Effect Mitigation Technique using Optical Filters for Semiconductor-Optical-Amplifier based Wavelength Conversion......Page 163
Part 3......Page 179
08_Chromatic Dispersion Monitoring Method Based on Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Spectral Shift Effect in 40 Gb/s Optical Communication Systems......Page 181
09_Slow and Fast Light in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers for Microwave Photonics Applications......Page 195
10_Photonic Integrated Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Switch Circuits......Page 221
11_Negative Feedback Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers and All-Optical Triode......Page 247
Part 4......Page 269
12_Coherent Radiation Generation and Amplification in Erbium Doped Systems......Page 271
13_Optical Amplifiers from Rare-Earth Co-Doped Glass Waveguides......Page 295
14_Tunable Fibre Lasers Based on Optical Amplifiers and an Opto-VLSI Processor......Page 317
15_Equivalent Circuit Models for Optical Amplifiers......Page 343
Part 5......Page 365
16_Dual-Wavelength Pumped Dispersion-Compensating Fibre Raman Amplifiers......Page 367
17_Fiber-Bragg-Grating Based Optical Amplifiers......Page 391
18_Burst-mode Optical Amplifiers for Passive Optical Networks......Page 421
19_Cascaded Nonlinear Optical Mixing in a Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplifier......Page 439