Nanostructure Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers: Building Blocks for All-Optical Processing (Engineering Materials)

✍ Scribed by Ali Rostami, Hamed Baghban, Reza Maram

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 193
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Nanostructure Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers" reviews all-optical processing methods currently available and presents semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) as a new building block for this purpose. The authors discuss the overcomes of high frequency operation of SOAs and propose a new all-optical pumping method for the implementation of semiconductor optical amplifiers.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Nanostructure Semiconductor Optical
Amplifiers......Page 3
Copyright
......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
1.1…Introduction......Page 11
1.2…Operation Principles......Page 12
1.3…SOA Gain......Page 13
1.3.1 Gain Saturation......Page 16
1.3.2 Confinement Factor......Page 18
1.4…Refractive Index......Page 19
1.5…Linewidth Enhancement Factor......Page 20
1.6…Comparison of Operating Characteristics......Page 22
1.6.1 Amplified Spontaneous Emission......Page 26
1.6.2 Noise Figure......Page 27
1.7…Polarization Properties......Page 29
1.8…Doped QD-SOAs......Page 37
1.8.1 p-Doped QD-SOAs......Page 38
1.8.2 n-Doped QD-SOAs......Page 47
1.9.1 Quantum-Dot Growth......Page 48
1.9.2 Epitaxial Structure of QD-SOA......Page 50
1.9.3.1 Far-Field Pattern......Page 53
1.9.3.2 Facet Reflectivity Reduction......Page 54
1.9.3.3 Anti-Reflection Coating......Page 55
1.9.3.4 Buried Facet (Window Structure)......Page 57
1.9.3.5 Tilted Waveguide/Facet......Page 59
References......Page 60
2.1…Introduction......Page 63
2.2…Numerical Methods......Page 64
2.3…Equivalent Circuit Methods......Page 68
2.4…Analytical Methods......Page 75
References......Page 79
3.2.1 Carrier Reservoir......Page 81
3.2.2 Optical Pulse Injection and Holding Beam......Page 85
3.2.3 Optical Filtering......Page 92
3.2.4 Active Region Modification......Page 97
3.3.1 Two-Photon Absorption-Assisted Recovery......Page 100
3.3.2 Control Pulse-Assisted Recovery......Page 104
References......Page 114
4.1…Introduction......Page 119
4.2…SOA-MZI Gate......Page 120
4.3…SOA-MZI Transfer Function......Page 122
4.5.1 XGM-Based Wavelength Conversion......Page 124
4.5.2 XPM-Based Wavelength Conversion......Page 126
4.5.3 FWM-Based Wavelength Conversion......Page 127
4.5.4 Wavelength Conversion in SOA-BPF Configuration......Page 128
4.6…All-Optical Regeneration......Page 132
4.7.1 XOR Gate......Page 136
4.7.2 AND Gate......Page 138
4.7.3 OR Gate......Page 139
4.7.4 NOR Gate......Page 140
4.7.5 XNOR Gate......Page 144
4.7.6 NAND Gate......Page 146
4.8…All-Optical Multiplexing and Demultiplexing......Page 148
4.8.1 SOA-MZI-Based Multiplexing......Page 149
4.8.2 SOA-MZI-Based Demultiplexing......Page 151
4.9.1 NRZ-to-RZ Data Format Conversion......Page 154
4.9.2 NRZ-to-PRZ Data Format Conversion......Page 156
4.9.3 RZ-to-NRZ Data Format Conversion......Page 158
4.10…All-Optical Flip-Flop......Page 159
4.11…All-Optical PRBS Generation......Page 163
4.12…All-Optical Clock Recovery......Page 165
References......Page 169
5.2…All-Optical Header/Payload Separation......Page 173
5.3…All-Optical Correlator......Page 175
5.4…All-Optical Packet Routing......Page 180
5.5…All-Optical Header Processing......Page 182
5.6…All-Optical Packet Switching Based on In-Band Filtering......Page 185
5.7…All-Optical Self-Routing Node and Network Architecture......Page 187
References......Page 192