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Semiconductor optical amplifiers |
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| Authors: | Eisenstein G. |
| Affiliation: | AT&T Bell Lab., Holmdel, NJ; |
| Abstract: | An overview of semiconductor optical amplifier characteristics and their potential applications is presented. The latter consist of nonregenerative repeaters, optical receiver preamplifiers, power amplifiers and amplifier/modulators, general optical gain blocks, narrowband tunable amplifiers, and bistable amplifiers |
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