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 Optical amplifiers play a central role in all categories of fibre communications systems and networks. By compensating for the losses exerted by the transmission medium and the components through which the signals pass, they reduce the need for expensive and slow optical-electrical-optical conversion. The photonic gain media, which are normally based on glass- or semiconductor-based waveguides, can amplify many high speed wavelength division multiplexed channels simultaneously. Recent research has also concentrated on wavelength conversion, switching, demultiplexing in the time domain and other enhanced functions. Advances in Optical Amplifiers presents up to date results on amplifier performance, along with explanations of their relevance, from leading researchers in the field. Its chapters cover amplifiers based on rare earth doped fibres and waveguides, stimulated Raman scattering, nonlinear parametric processes and semiconductor media. Wavelength conversion and other enhanced signal processing functions are also considered in depth. This book is targeted at research, development and design engineers from teams in manufacturing industry, academia and telecommunications service operators