A Technical Review on Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOAs) and their Applications

Gourav Misra¹, Arun Agarwal^2, and Saurabh Narendra Mehta³

¹School of Electronic Engineering,Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland

²Department of ECE, FET, ITER, Siksha O Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha,India

³Department of ECE, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India

Cite this paper:
Gourav Misra, Arun Agarwal and Saurabh Narendra Mehta. A Technical Review on Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOAs) and their Applications. American Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. 2024; 12(2):8-13. doi: 10.12691/ajeee-12-1-2

Abstract

In last few decades, a major revolution has taken place on the electronic system and in the optical communication networks. The implementation of semiconductors to enhance optical signal was invented many years ago. The Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA) have much viability in different application areas. Nowadays, SOAs have been considered as one of the key solutions to for number functionalities in the evolution of electronic as well as communication systems. The requirement of moving towards the ultra-wideband systems and many other applications has enabled the usage of semiconductor optical amplifiers. This review paper focuses to describe some of the basic concepts behind the semiconductor optical amplifiers including the static and dynamic parameters characterizations. This survey paper also describes the various ranges of crucial applications of SOAs in several fields (such as: in packet switching, in UWB systems, in OCDMA systems etc.)

Keywords:
SOA Static and dynamic parameters packet switching UWB OCDMA

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