A theoretical study of active mode-locking fiber loop laser using semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) was presented in this paper. The effects of linewidth broadening factor of SOA on active mode-locking were investigated originally. The relations between parameters of output pulse series and the critical parameters of SOA and other elements in fiber loop were obtained. 2002 Elsevier Science ...

Beating noise in narrow-linewidth erbium-doped fiber ring lasers puts severe limitations on applications of the lasers. We demonstrate the suppression of beating noise in fiber ring lasers by using a semiconductor optical amplifier in the laser cavity, which acts as a high-pass filter. Two different ring structures are presented as examples to demonstrate this beating noise suppression.

The first integrated SGDBR laser/Semiconductor Optical Amplifier-MachZehnder modulator transmitter is presented. Devices have 3dB bandwidth ranging from 1318GHz corresponding to electrodes lengths that range between 200-300um long. This corresponds to a Vpi of 4.8-6.2V Fig. 1 MZ-SOA-SGDBR layout

We demonstrate new optical techniques for externally controlling the latchable output power of a semiconductor-optical-amplifier-based flip-flop. Optical 'set' and 'reset' signals increase and decrease the re-fractive index, respectively, via cross-phase modulation (XPM). Set signals, which deplete the carrier density, have wavelengths between 1533 and 1568 nm, and powers as low as 22 microW. R...

By using two main effects of cross-gain modulation and cross-phase modulation in semiconductor optical amplifier-based devices, many logic functions of logic AND, OR, XOR, NOR and XNOR are successfully demonstrated. Also, complex systems including all-optical half and full adders in a combination of multiple logic functions are successfully demonstrated. These functions will provide not only in...