Abstract
The rapid development of erbium doped fiber amplifiers will change the way systems designers plan for next generation lightwave systems. While not without pitfalls and shortcomings, the viability of optical amplifiers to compensate for propagation, distribution and connector losses will have profound implications in enabling new lightwave systems and networks. In a very analogous way, integrable semiconductor amplifiers offer loss compensation as well as switching functionality to enable sophisticated subsystems on a chip. Rather than competing with fiber amplifiers, these integrated optic or photonic integrated circuits offer the potential of compact, cost effective solutions to next generation lightwave signal processing needs that will complement the role of discrete fiber amplifiers. In this talk we survey the use of semiconductor optical amplifiers as integrable building blocks in photonic circuits. The trade-offs between integration issues and amplifier performance, prospective circuits and potential applications will be discussed.
© 1992 Optical Society of America
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