Invited Article: Four-mode semiconductor optical amplifier

We demonstrate the first few-mode semiconductor optical amplifier (FM SOA) that supports up to four waveguide modes. We show that each of the modes are confined to the waveguide, overlapping the quantum wells with approximately the same amount, leading to equalized gain for each of the four waveguid...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: He Wen, Yousef Alahmadi, Patrick LiKamWa, Cen Xia, Christian Carboni, Guifang Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2016-10-01
Series:APL Photonics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4955178