Nonlinear absorption and carrier dynamics in slab-coupled optical waveguide amplifiers

Limitations imposed on the saturation energy of high-power slab-coupled optical waveguide amplifiers were studied for pulsed signal transmission. Loss due to the two-photon absorption and free-carrier absorption processes becomes a dominant factor for ultrashort-pulse amplification, leading to lower...

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Main Authors: Motamedi, Ali R., Ippen, Erich P., Plant, Jason J., Donnelly, Joseph P., Juodawlkis, Paul W.
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60057
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6032-8636