INDEX 543
self-phase modulation, 64, 196, 239, 270,
286, 301–302, 307, 386, 404–
411, 506
Sellmeier equation, 39
semiconductor lasers
broad-area, 97
buried heterostructure, 98
characteristics of, 106
coupled-cavity, 102
coupling efficiency for, 120
DFB,seedistributed feedback lasers
EDFA pumping by, 251
external-cavity, 416
feedback sensitivity of, 120, 214
FM response of, 486
frequency stability of, 374
gain in, 93
gain-guided, 97
index-guided, 98
intensity noise of, 500
linewidth of, 116
longitudinal modes of, 96
materials for, 84
mode-locked, 240, 416
modulation response of, 110–114
MQW, 87, 213
multisection, 344
narrow linewidth, 499
noise in, 114–117
P–ICharacteristics, 109
packaging of, 125
quantum-dot, 87
quantum-well, 87
quantum-wire, 87
reliability of, 124
single-frequency, 99
SNR of, 116
strained MQW, 87, 213, 499
stripe-geometry, 97
structures for, 96–99
surface-emitting, 105
temperature sensitivity of, 107
threshold of, 94
transfer function of, 111
tunable, 103, 359
semiconductor optical amplifiers, 232–243
angled-facet, 233
applications of, 241
bandwidth of, 233
buried-facet, 234
demultiplexing with, 379
design of, 233
Fabry–Perot, 232
facet reflectivity of, 233
filters based on, 344
four-wavemixing in, 304, 359
mode locking with, 417
polarization sensitivity of, 236
properties of, 234–243
pulse amplification in, 237
switching with, 356
tilted-stripe, 233
traveling-wave, 232
wavelength conversion with, 357
window-facet, 234
shot noise,seenoise
shuffle network, 337
sideband instability, 197
signal
analog, 8–11, 382–385
audio, 8, 11, 185
beat, 418
binary, 8
clock, 377
crosstalk, 365
digital, 8–11, 385–386
duobinary, 284
FSK, 284
heterodyne, 481
homodyne, 480
microwave,286, 381
multichannel, 340
phase-conjugated, 302
reduced-bandwidth, 284
spectrally encoded, 390
studio-quality video, 385
TE-polarized, 236
time-reversed, 301
TM-polarized, 236
video, 8, 11, 185, 382
WDM, 257, 345, 348, 351, 353, 368
signal-to-noise ratio, 10, 116, 158–161, 230,
372, 481
signature sequence, 389
silica-on-silicon technology, 342, 347, 349,
351, 353, 361, 376
silicon optical bench, 120, 342
silicon-on-insulator technology, 351
skew rays, 26
slope efficiency, 109, 122