Index
absorption coefficient, 134
absorption rate, 80
accelerated aging, 124
acoustic frequency, 370
acoustic jitter,seetiming jitter
acousticwaves, 59, 343, 454, 486
activation energy, 125
amplification factor, 227, 234, 238, 245, 270
amplified spontaneous emission, 252, 256,
264, 435
amplifier noise,seenoise
amplifier spacing, 265, 420, 421, 426
amplifiers
applications of, 231
bandwidth of, 227
C-band, 259
cascaded, 264–272
doped-fiber,seefiber amplifiers
gain of, 227
in-line, 195, 241, 264–272, 280, 435
L-band, 259, 272
noise in, 230
parametric, 249, 305, 457
power, 231, 263
properties of, 226–231
Raman, 243–250, 259
S-band, 259
saturation characteristics of, 229
semiconductor,seesemiconductor op-
tical amplifiers
amplitude-phase coupling, 110, 117
amplitude-shift keying,seemodulation for-
mat
anticorrelation, 116, 205
antireflection coating, 92, 103, 233, 344
APD, 142–148
physical mechanism behind, 142
bandwidth of, 144
design of, 143
enhanced shot noise in, 159
excess noise factor for, 159
gain of, 144
optimum gain for, 161, 166
reach-through, 145
responsivity of, 144
SAGCM, 146
SAGM, 146
SAM, 145
staircase, 146
superlattice, 147
apodization technique, 294
ASCII code, 9
ATM protocol, 334, 336, 381
attenuation coefficient, 55
Auger recombination, 83, 84, 109
autocorrelation function, 115, 116, 156, 157,
389, 391
avalanche breakdown, 144
avalanche photodiode,seeAPDbandgap discontinuity, 82
bandwidth
amplifier, 227, 228, 257
APD, 144
Brillouin-gain, 370
fiber, 53, 194
filter, 151, 271, 341, 344
front-end, 149
gain, 227
grating, 296
LED, 91
modulator, 485
noise, 156
photodetector, 136
photodiode, 139
Raman-amplifier, 243
Raman-gain, 63
RC circuit, 194
receiver, 384
semiconductor laser, 112