ULTRA-LOW-REFLECTIVITY SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS WITHOUT ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS

被引:25
作者
RIDEOUT, W
HOLMSTROM, R
LACOURSE, J
MELAND, E
POWAZINIK, W
机构
[1] GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham, 40 Sylvan Road, MA
关键词
Optical communications; Semiconductor lasers;
D O I
10.1049/el:19900024
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
High-performance, tilted stripe ridge waveguide semiconductor optical amplifiers which require no antireflection coating to achieve reflectivities of less than −40 dB are demonstrated. This very low reflectivity is found to be both largely independent of polarisation and wavelength, and also easily reproducible from wafer to wafer. © 1990, The Institution of Electrical Engineers. All rights reserved.
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页数:3
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