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Improvement of cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier gates by using holding light injection

Yu et al., 2001

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5006902299872692238
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Yu J
Jeppesen P
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Journal of lightwave technology

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The cascadability of semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) gates by using holding light injection is numerically and experimentally investigated. Our experimental results show that the signal bit error rate after two cascaded SOA gates will be larger than 10-9 without …
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