Nanostructure Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers: Building Blocks for All-Optical Processing

✍ Scribed by Ali Rostami, Hamed Baghban, Reza Maram (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 189
• Series: Engineering Materials
• Edition: 1
• 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

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Quantum-Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers, Basic Principles, Design Methods, and Optical Characterizations....Pages 1-52
Simulation Methods of Quantum-Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers....Pages 53-70
Techniques Toward High Speed Operation of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers....Pages 71-107
Applications and Functionalities....Pages 109-161
Application of SOA-Based Circuits in All-Optical Signal Processing and Switching....Pages 163-183

✦ Subjects

Optical and Electronic Materials;Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering;Semiconductors;Optics and Electrodynamics