{"title":"Gain-Power Trade-Off in Low-Confinement Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers","authors":"P. Juodawlkis, J. Plant","doi":"10.1109/NUSOD.2007.4349042","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We report simulation and experimental results to explore the fundamental trade-off between small-signal gain (G<sub>0</sub>) and saturation output power (P<sub>0,SAT</sub>) in semiconductor optical amplifiers having very small (< 1%) optical confinement factor Gamma. We demonstrate a high-power 1.5-mum InGaAsP slab-coupled optical waveguide amplifier (SCOWA) exhibiting G<sub>0</sub> = 22.5 dB and P<sub>0,SAT</sub> = +28.8 dBm.","PeriodicalId":255219,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2007 International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NUSOD.2007.4349042","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We report simulation and experimental results to explore the fundamental trade-off between small-signal gain (G0) and saturation output power (P0,SAT) in semiconductor optical amplifiers having very small (< 1%) optical confinement factor Gamma. We demonstrate a high-power 1.5-mum InGaAsP slab-coupled optical waveguide amplifier (SCOWA) exhibiting G0 = 22.5 dB and P0,SAT = +28.8 dBm.