TY - JOUR
T1 - Travelling-wave model of semiconductor optical amplifier based non-linear loop mirror
AU - Wong, W.M.
AU - Blow, K.J.
N1 - Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2003/1/1
Y1 - 2003/1/1
N2 - A travelling-wave model of a semiconductor optical amplifier based non-linear loop mirror is developed to investigate the importance of travelling-wave effects and gain/phase dynamics in predicting device behaviour. A constant effective carrier recovery lifetime approximation is found to be reasonably accurate (±10%) within a wide range of control pulse energies. Based on this approximation, a heuristic model is developed for maximum computational efficiency. The models are applied to a particular configuration involving feedback.
AB - A travelling-wave model of a semiconductor optical amplifier based non-linear loop mirror is developed to investigate the importance of travelling-wave effects and gain/phase dynamics in predicting device behaviour. A constant effective carrier recovery lifetime approximation is found to be reasonably accurate (±10%) within a wide range of control pulse energies. Based on this approximation, a heuristic model is developed for maximum computational efficiency. The models are applied to a particular configuration involving feedback.
KW - semiconductor optical amplifier
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0036460624&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0030-4018(02)02179-X
DO - 10.1016/S0030-4018(02)02179-X
M3 - Article
SN - 0030-4018
VL - 215
SP - 169
EP - 184
JO - Optics Communications
JF - Optics Communications
IS - 1-3
ER -