APL Photonics
(Oct 2016)
Invited Article: Four-mode semiconductor optical amplifier
He Wen,
Yousef Alahmadi,
Patrick LiKamWa,
Cen Xia,
Christian Carboni,
Guifang Li
Affiliations
He Wen
The College of Precision Instruments and Opto-Electronic Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, People’s Republic of China
Yousef Alahmadi
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, 4304 Scorpius St., Orlando, Florida 32816-2700, USA
Patrick LiKamWa
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, 4304 Scorpius St., Orlando, Florida 32816-2700, USA
Cen Xia
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, 4304 Scorpius St., Orlando, Florida 32816-2700, USA
Christian Carboni
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, 4304 Scorpius St., Orlando, Florida 32816-2700, USA
Guifang Li
The College of Precision Instruments and Opto-Electronic Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, People’s Republic of China
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4955178
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1,
no. 7
Abstract
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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 waveguide modes.
Published in APL Photonics
ISSN
2378-0967 (Online)
Publisher
AIP Publishing LLC
Country of publisher
United States
LCC subjects
Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics
Website
https://aplphotonics.aip.org
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