New Method for Characterizing the Injected-carrier-to-photon Conversion Efficiencies Inside the Ultrafast all-optical Semiconductor Gates
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We propose a new method to characterize the conversion efficiency from the injected carriers to the excess photons in the process of all-optical gating in SOA, and investigated the efficiencies of SOAs with different structures. @2006 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (250.5980) Semiconductor optical amplifiers; (190.5970) Semiconductor nonlinear optics including MQW;
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