Optical bistability and nonlinear gain in 1.55 μm VCSOA

Hurtado, A. and Gonzalez-Marcos, A. and Henning, I. D. and Adams, M. J. (2006) Optical bistability and nonlinear gain in 1.55 μm VCSOA. Electronics Letters, 42 (8). 483 - 484. ISSN 0013-5194 (https://doi.org/10.1049/el:20060478)

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Abstract

An experimental observation of power and wavelength optical bistability and nonlinear gain in a 1550nm vertical-cavity semiconductor optical amplifier (VCSOA) operated in reflection and biased above and below threshold is reported. Two distinct types of optical bistability, clockwise and anticlockwise, are observed.