Photonics Technology Letters

April 1996 volume 8 issue 4

Advance Table of Contents

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SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS

Sale, Visible (683 to 713nm) All AlGaAs Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs).

Smith, Very Narrow Linewidth Asymmetric Cladding InGaAs-GaAs Ridge Waveguide Distributed Bragg Reflector Lasers.

Aoki, Wide-Temperature-Range Operation of 1.3-$mu$m Beam Expander-Integrated Laser Diodes Grown by In-Plane Thickness Control MOVPE using a Silicon Shadow Mask.

Yu, Proposed Enhancement of Side Mode Suppression Ratio in $lambda / 4$ Shifted Distributed Feedback Lasers with Non-Uniform Diffused Quantum Wells.

Annovazzi-Lodi, Protecting a Power Laser-Diode From Retroreflections by Means of a Fiber $lambda$/4 Retarder.

Singh, Possibility of Room Temperature Intra-band Lasing in Quantum Dot Structures Placed in High Photon Density Cavities.

Zhang, Nanofabrication of 1-D Photonic Bandgap Structures Along a Photonic Wire.

Matsuda, A Surface-Emitting Laser Array with Backside Guiding Holes for Passive Alignment to Parallel Optical Fibers.

Talneau, Multiwavelength Grating Reflectors for Widely Tunable Laser.

Doerr, Chirping of the Waveguide Grating Router for Free-Spectral-Range Mode Selection in the Multi-Frequency Laser.

Zhu, High Peak Power Picosecond Optical Pulse Generation from Q-Switched Bow-Tie Laser with a Tapered Travelling Wave Amplifier.

Inoue, Gain Dynamics of a Saturated Semiconductor Laser Amplifier with 1.47-$mu$m LD Pumping.

Prakasam, Practical Approach to Design and Fabrication of Antireflection Coatings for Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers.

DOPED FIBER AND WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIERS

Ohishi, Analysis of Gain Characteristics of Bi-Directionally Pumped Praseodymium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers.

Nilsson, Analysis of AC Gain Tilt in Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers.

Ghosh, 8 mW Threshold Er$nothing sup 3+$-Doped Planar Waveguide Amplifier.

WAVELENGTH CONVERSION/FOUR-WAVE MIXING

Joergensen, Wavelength Conversion by Optimised Monolithic Integrated Mach-Zehnder Interferometer.

Shieh, All-Optical Wavelength Shifting of Microwave Subcarriers by Using Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier.

Ovsthus, A Novel Method for Polarization Insensitive Four-Wave Mixing in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers.

Ducellier, Study of Optical Phase Conjugation in Bulk Travelling Wave Semiconductor Optical Amplifier.

Shieh, A Polarization-Independent and Contrast-Ratio-Enhancing Module for All-Optical Wavelength Shifting Using SOAs.

OPTOELECTRONIC SWITCHES

Gillner, Analysis of Input Power Dynamic Ranges in Two Types of Expanded Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Gate Switch Arrays.

Jeannes, Submilliwatt Optical Bistability in Wafer Fused Vertical Cavity at 1.55$mu$m Wavelength.

WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS

Fujiwara, Polarization Dependent Loss in a Ti:LiNbO$nothing sub 3$ Polarization Scrambler/Controller.

Murphy, Guided-Wave Optical Time Delay Network.

Liao, Nickel-Diffused Lithium Niobate Optical Waveguide with Process-Dependent Polarization.

McGreer, Tunable Planar Concave Grating Demultiplexer.

Bissessur, Extremely Small Polarisation Independent Phased-Array Demultiplexers on InP.

Rahman, Improved Laser-Fiber Coupling by Using Spot-Size Transformer.

MEASUREMENTS

Kourogi, 3.17 THz Frequency-Difference Measurement Between Lasers using Two Optical Frequency Combs.

PHOTODETECTORS AND PHOTORECEIVERS

Takahata, A 10-Gbit/s Two-Channel Monolithic Photoreceiver Array using Waveguide p-i-n PDs and HEMTs.

Kim, A Monolithically Integrated InGaAs/InP p-i-n/JFET Focal Plane Array.

NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS

Hill, A Scalable and Switchless Optical Network Structure, Employing a Single 32x32 Free-Space Grating Multiplexer.

Misono, High-Speed Wavelength Switching and Stabilization of an Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter for WDM Network in Broadcasting Stations.

Mahon, Polarization Allocation Schemes for Minimizing Fibre Four-Wave Mixing Crosstalk in Wavelength Division Multiplexed Optical Communication Systems.

Wake, Transmission of 60 GHz Signals over 100 km of Optical Fibre Using a Dual-Mode Semiconductor Laser Source.