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Bulk SOAs
Bulk / quantum-well (QW) SOAs:
Mature technology, same wavelengths as lasers
G ∼ 20 dB, BW > 50 nm, NF ∼ 6 dB
Low polarization dependency, low ripple
P
sat
< 20 dB
m
, τ ∼ 100 ps–1 ns; nonlinearities
L. Spiekman, “Semiconductor optical amplifiers for reconfigurable optical networks”, J. Optical
Networking 6 (11), Nov 2007.
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