High Performance 1550 nm Quantum Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers Operating at 25-100 °C


  Ori Eyal  ,  O. Eyal  ,  A. Willinger   ,  V. Mikhelashvili  ,  S. Banyoudeh  ,  F. Schnabel  ,  V. Sichkovsky  ,  J. P. Reithmaier  ,  G. Eisenstein  
Eletrical Engineering Dept. Technion, Haifa 32000 Israel
Russell Berrier Nanotechnology Institute, Technion, Haifa 32000 Israel
Spectra Physics Tel Aviv, 120 Yigal Alon St. Tel-Aviv, - 67443 Israel
Technological Physics, Institute of Nanostructure Technologies and Analytics, CINSaT, University of Kassel, Kassel 34132,

We report static and dynamic properties of InAs/InP Quantum Dot optical amplifiers. High gain, distortionless amplification of 28Gbit/s signals and two-channel amplification at a detuning of 2nm with no cross talk have been demonstrated over a temperature range of 250 - 1000C.