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Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Phase noise in traveling-wave inverted-population-type optical amplifiers

Lars Thylen, Anders Karlsson, T. Kenneth Gustafson, Mats Gustavsson

Published Mar 1, 1992• 4 citations
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Abstract

The Heisenberg equations of motion are used to calculate the phase noise of inverted-population-type traveling-wave laser amplifiers generally and semiconductor amplifiers specifically. Agreement with previously reported results in the limit of perfect inversion is demonstrated.
DOI
10.1364/josab.9.000369

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