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1. R. Bonk, T. Vallaitis, J. Guetlein, C. Meuer, H. Schmeckebier, D. Bimberg, C Koos, W Freude, and J Leuthold, “The input power dynamic range of a semiconductor optical amplifier and its relevance for access network applications,” IEEE Photonics J.3, 1039–1053 (2011).
2. R. J. Manning, D. A. O. Davies, and J. K. Lucek, “Recovery rates in semiconductor laser amplifiers: optical and electrical bias dependencies,” Electron. Lett.30, 1233–1235 (1994).
3. D. Wolfson, S. L. Danielsen, C. Joergensen, B. Mikkelsen, and K. E. Stubkjaer, “Detailed theoretical investigation of the input power dynamic range for gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier gates at 10 Gb/s,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.10, 1241–1243 (1998).
4. D. A. Francis, S. P. DiJaili, and J. D. Walker, “A single-chip linear optical amplifier,” in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OSA Technical Digest Series (Optical Society of America,2001), paper PD13.
5. C. Michie, A. E. Kelly, I. Armstrong, I. Andonovic, and C. Tombling, “An adjustable gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier (AGC-SOA),” J. Lightwave Technol.25, 1466–1473 (2007).
6. H. N. Tan, M. Matsuura, and N. Kishi, “Enhancement of input power dynamic range for multiwavelength amplification and optical signal processing in a semiconductor optical amplifier using holding beam effect,” J. Lightwave Technol.8, 2593–2602 (2010).
7. J. Yu and P. Jeppesen, “Increasing input power dynamic range of SOA by shifting the transparent wavelength of tunable optical filter,” J. Lightwave Technol.19, 1316–1325 (2001).
8. J. Leuthold, D. M. Marom, S. Cabot, J. J. Jaques, R. Ryf, and C. R. Giles, “All-optical wavelength conversion using a pulse reformatting optical filter,” J. Lightwave Technol.22, 186–192 (2004).
9. P. J. Winzer and R.-J. Essiambre, “Advanced modulation formats for high-capacity optical transport networks,” J. Lightwave Technol.24, 4711–4728 (2006).
10. M. Sauer and J. Hurley, “Experimental 43 Gb/s NRZ and DPSK performance comparison for systems with up to 8 concatenated SOAs,” in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies, Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America,2006), paper CThY2.
11. E. Ciaramella, A. D’Errico, and V. Donzella, “Using semiconductor-optical amplifiers with constant envelope WDM signals,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron.44, 403–409 (2008).
12. J. D. Downie and J. Hurley, “Effects of dispersion on SOA nonlinear impairments with DPSK signals,” in Proc. of 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, LEOS2008, paper WX3.
13. P. S. Cho, Y. Achiam, G. Levy-Yurista, M. Margalit, Y. Gross, and J. B. Khurgin, “Investigation of SOA nonlinearities on the amplification of high spectral efficiency signals,” in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America,2004), paper MF70.
14. X. Wei, Y. Su, X. Liu, J. Leuthold, and S. Chandrasekhar, “10-Gb/s RZ-DPSK transmitter using a saturated SOA as a power booster and limiting amplifier,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.16, 1582–1584 (1998).
15. H. Takeda, N. Hashimoto, T. Akashi, H. Narusawa, K. Matsui, K. Mori, S. Tanaka, and K. Morito, “Wide range over 20 dB output power control using semiconductor optical amplifier for 43.1 Gbps RZ-DQPSK signal,” 35th European Conference on Optical Communication,2009. ECOC 2009, paper 5.3.4, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5287100&isnumber=5286960 .
16. T. Vallaitis, R. Bonk, J. Guetlein, D. Hillerkuss, J. Li, R. Brenot, F. Lelarge, G.-H. Duan, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “Quantum dot SOA input power dynamic range improvement for differential-phase encoded signals,” Opt. Express18(6), 6270–6276 (2010). [PubMed]
17. R. Bonk, G. Huber, T. Vallaitis, R. Schmogrow, D. Hillerkuss, C. Koos, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “Impact of alfa-factor on SOA dynamic range for 20 GBd BPSK, QPSK and 16-QAM signals,” in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America,2011), paper OML4.
18. N. A. Olsson, “Lightwave systems with optical amplifiers,” J. Lightwave Technol.7, 1071–1082 (1989), http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=29634&isnumber=1269 .
19. C. Meuer, J. Kim, M. Laemmlin, S. Liebich, A. Capua, G. Eisenstein, A. R. Kovsh, S. S. Mikhrin, I. L. Krestnikov, and D. Bimberg, “Static gain saturation in quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers,” Opt. Express16(11), 8269–8279 (2008). [PubMed]
20. G.-W. Lu, M. Sköld, P. Johannisson, J. Zhao, M. Sjödin, H. Sunnerud, M. Westlund, A. Ellis, and P. A. Andrekson, “40-Gbaud 16-QAM transmitter using tandem IQ modulators with binary driving electronic signals,” Opt. Express18(22), 23062–23069 (2010). [PubMed]
21. T. Vallaitis, C. Koos, R. Bonk, W. Freude, M. Laemmlin, C. Meuer, D. Bimberg, and J. Leuthold, “Slow and fast dynamics of gain and phase in a quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifier,” Opt. Express16(1), 170–178 (2008). [PubMed]
22. R. Giller, R. J. Manning, and D. Cotter, “Gain and phase recovery of optically excited semiconductor optical amplifiers,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.18, 1061–1063 (2006).
23. J. Wang, A. Maitra, C. G. Poulton, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “Temporal dynamics of the alpha factor in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” J. Lightwave Technol.25, 891–900 (2007), http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1621277&isnumber=33924 .
24. W. Loh, J. J. Plant, J. Klamkin, J. P. Donnelly, F. J. O'Donnell, R. J. Ram, and P. W. Juodawlkis, “Noise figure of Watt-class ultralow-confinement semiconductor optical amplifiers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron.47, 66–75 (2011).
25. A. Borghesani, “Semiconductor optical amplifiers for advanced optical applications,” International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON2006, 119–122.
26. A. V. Uskov, T. W. Berg, and J. Mørk, “Theory of pulse-train amplification without patterning effects in quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron.40, 306–320 (2004).
27. A. V. Uskov, E. P. O’Reilly, M. Laemmlin, N. N. Ledentsov, and D. Bimberg, “On gain saturation in quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers,” Opt. Commun.248, 211–219 (2005).
28. S. Sygletos, R. Bonk, T. Vallaitis, A. Marculescu, P. Vorreau, J. S. Li, R. Brenot, F. Lelarge, G. H. Duan, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “Filter assisted wavelength conversion with quantum-dot SOAs,” J. Lightwave Technol.28, 882–897 (2010).
29. A. V. Uskov, J. Mørk, B. Tromberg, T. W. Berg, I. Magnusdottir, and E. P. O’Reilly, “On high-speed cross-gain modulation without pattern effects in quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers,” Opt. Commun.227, 363–369 (2003).
30. A. V. Uskov, E. P. O’Reilly, R. J. Manning, R. P. Webb, D. Cotter, M. Laemmlin, N. N. Ledentsov, and D. Bimberg, “On ultrafast switching based on quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers in nonlinear interferometers,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.16, 1265–1267 (2004).
31. V. J. Urick, J. X. Qiu, and F. Bucholtz, “Wide-band QAM-over-fiber using phase modulation and interferometric demodulation,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.16, 2374–2376 (2004).
32. R. Schmogrow, B. Nebendahl, M. Winter, A. Josten, D. Hillerkuss, S. Koenig, J. Meyer, M. Dreschmann, M. Huebner, C. Koos, J. Becker, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “Error vector magnitude as a performance measure for advanced modulation formats,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.24, 61–63 (2012).
33. F. Lelarge, B. Dagens, J. Renaudier, R. Brenot, A. Accard, F. van Dijk, D. Make, O. L. Gouezigou, J.-G. Provost, F. Poingt, J. Landreau, O. Drisse, E. Derouin, B. Rousseau, F. Pommereau, and G.-H. Duan, “Recent advances on InAs/InP quantum dash based semiconductor lasers and optical amplifiers operating at 1.55µm,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.13, 111–124 (2007).
34. C. Dorrer and I. Kang, “Real-time implementation of linear spectrograms for the characterization of high bit-rate optical pulse trains,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.16, 858–860 (2004).
35. R. Schmogrow, D. Hillerkuss, M. Dreschmann, M. Huebner, M. Winter, J. Meyer, B. Nebendahl, C. Koos, J. Becker, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “Real-time software-defined multiformat transmitter generating 64 QAM at 28 GBd,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.22, 1601–1603 (2010).

Electron. Lett.

• R. J. Manning, D. A. O. Davies, and J. K. Lucek, “Recovery rates in semiconductor laser amplifiers: optical and electrical bias dependencies,” Electron. Lett.30, 1233–1235 (1994).

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

• E. Ciaramella, A. D’Errico, and V. Donzella, “Using semiconductor-optical amplifiers with constant envelope WDM signals,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron.44, 403–409 (2008).
• W. Loh, J. J. Plant, J. Klamkin, J. P. Donnelly, F. J. O'Donnell, R. J. Ram, and P. W. Juodawlkis, “Noise figure of Watt-class ultralow-confinement semiconductor optical amplifiers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron.47, 66–75 (2011).
• A. V. Uskov, T. W. Berg, and J. Mørk, “Theory of pulse-train amplification without patterning effects in quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron.40, 306–320 (2004).

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.

• F. Lelarge, B. Dagens, J. Renaudier, R. Brenot, A. Accard, F. van Dijk, D. Make, O. L. Gouezigou, J.-G. Provost, F. Poingt, J. Landreau, O. Drisse, E. Derouin, B. Rousseau, F. Pommereau, and G.-H. Duan, “Recent advances on InAs/InP quantum dash based semiconductor lasers and optical amplifiers operating at 1.55µm,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.13, 111–124 (2007).

IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.

• C. Dorrer and I. Kang, “Real-time implementation of linear spectrograms for the characterization of high bit-rate optical pulse trains,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.16, 858–860 (2004).
• R. Schmogrow, D. Hillerkuss, M. Dreschmann, M. Huebner, M. Winter, J. Meyer, B. Nebendahl, C. Koos, J. Becker, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “Real-time software-defined multiformat transmitter generating 64 QAM at 28 GBd,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.22, 1601–1603 (2010).
• A. V. Uskov, E. P. O’Reilly, R. J. Manning, R. P. Webb, D. Cotter, M. Laemmlin, N. N. Ledentsov, and D. Bimberg, “On ultrafast switching based on quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers in nonlinear interferometers,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.16, 1265–1267 (2004).
• V. J. Urick, J. X. Qiu, and F. Bucholtz, “Wide-band QAM-over-fiber using phase modulation and interferometric demodulation,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.16, 2374–2376 (2004).
• R. Schmogrow, B. Nebendahl, M. Winter, A. Josten, D. Hillerkuss, S. Koenig, J. Meyer, M. Dreschmann, M. Huebner, C. Koos, J. Becker, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “Error vector magnitude as a performance measure for advanced modulation formats,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.24, 61–63 (2012).
• R. Giller, R. J. Manning, and D. Cotter, “Gain and phase recovery of optically excited semiconductor optical amplifiers,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.18, 1061–1063 (2006).
• D. Wolfson, S. L. Danielsen, C. Joergensen, B. Mikkelsen, and K. E. Stubkjaer, “Detailed theoretical investigation of the input power dynamic range for gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier gates at 10 Gb/s,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.10, 1241–1243 (1998).
• X. Wei, Y. Su, X. Liu, J. Leuthold, and S. Chandrasekhar, “10-Gb/s RZ-DPSK transmitter using a saturated SOA as a power booster and limiting amplifier,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.16, 1582–1584 (1998).

IEEE Photonics J.

• R. Bonk, T. Vallaitis, J. Guetlein, C. Meuer, H. Schmeckebier, D. Bimberg, C Koos, W Freude, and J Leuthold, “The input power dynamic range of a semiconductor optical amplifier and its relevance for access network applications,” IEEE Photonics J.3, 1039–1053 (2011).

J. Lightwave Technol.

• J. Wang, A. Maitra, C. G. Poulton, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “Temporal dynamics of the alpha factor in semiconductor optical amplifiers,” J. Lightwave Technol.25, 891–900 (2007), http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1621277&isnumber=33924 .
• S. Sygletos, R. Bonk, T. Vallaitis, A. Marculescu, P. Vorreau, J. S. Li, R. Brenot, F. Lelarge, G. H. Duan, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “Filter assisted wavelength conversion with quantum-dot SOAs,” J. Lightwave Technol.28, 882–897 (2010).
• N. A. Olsson, “Lightwave systems with optical amplifiers,” J. Lightwave Technol.7, 1071–1082 (1989), http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=29634&isnumber=1269 .
• C. Michie, A. E. Kelly, I. Armstrong, I. Andonovic, and C. Tombling, “An adjustable gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier (AGC-SOA),” J. Lightwave Technol.25, 1466–1473 (2007).
• H. N. Tan, M. Matsuura, and N. Kishi, “Enhancement of input power dynamic range for multiwavelength amplification and optical signal processing in a semiconductor optical amplifier using holding beam effect,” J. Lightwave Technol.8, 2593–2602 (2010).
• J. Yu and P. Jeppesen, “Increasing input power dynamic range of SOA by shifting the transparent wavelength of tunable optical filter,” J. Lightwave Technol.19, 1316–1325 (2001).
• J. Leuthold, D. M. Marom, S. Cabot, J. J. Jaques, R. Ryf, and C. R. Giles, “All-optical wavelength conversion using a pulse reformatting optical filter,” J. Lightwave Technol.22, 186–192 (2004).
• P. J. Winzer and R.-J. Essiambre, “Advanced modulation formats for high-capacity optical transport networks,” J. Lightwave Technol.24, 4711–4728 (2006).

Opt. Commun.

• A. V. Uskov, J. Mørk, B. Tromberg, T. W. Berg, I. Magnusdottir, and E. P. O’Reilly, “On high-speed cross-gain modulation without pattern effects in quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers,” Opt. Commun.227, 363–369 (2003).
• A. V. Uskov, E. P. O’Reilly, M. Laemmlin, N. N. Ledentsov, and D. Bimberg, “On gain saturation in quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers,” Opt. Commun.248, 211–219 (2005).

Opt. Express

• C. Meuer, J. Kim, M. Laemmlin, S. Liebich, A. Capua, G. Eisenstein, A. R. Kovsh, S. S. Mikhrin, I. L. Krestnikov, and D. Bimberg, “Static gain saturation in quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers,” Opt. Express16(11), 8269–8279 (2008). [PubMed]
• G.-W. Lu, M. Sköld, P. Johannisson, J. Zhao, M. Sjödin, H. Sunnerud, M. Westlund, A. Ellis, and P. A. Andrekson, “40-Gbaud 16-QAM transmitter using tandem IQ modulators with binary driving electronic signals,” Opt. Express18(22), 23062–23069 (2010). [PubMed]
• T. Vallaitis, C. Koos, R. Bonk, W. Freude, M. Laemmlin, C. Meuer, D. Bimberg, and J. Leuthold, “Slow and fast dynamics of gain and phase in a quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifier,” Opt. Express16(1), 170–178 (2008). [PubMed]
• T. Vallaitis, R. Bonk, J. Guetlein, D. Hillerkuss, J. Li, R. Brenot, F. Lelarge, G.-H. Duan, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “Quantum dot SOA input power dynamic range improvement for differential-phase encoded signals,” Opt. Express18(6), 6270–6276 (2010). [PubMed]

Other

• R. Bonk, G. Huber, T. Vallaitis, R. Schmogrow, D. Hillerkuss, C. Koos, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “Impact of alfa-factor on SOA dynamic range for 20 GBd BPSK, QPSK and 16-QAM signals,” in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America,2011), paper OML4.
• H. Takeda, N. Hashimoto, T. Akashi, H. Narusawa, K. Matsui, K. Mori, S. Tanaka, and K. Morito, “Wide range over 20 dB output power control using semiconductor optical amplifier for 43.1 Gbps RZ-DQPSK signal,” 35th European Conference on Optical Communication,2009. ECOC 2009, paper 5.3.4, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5287100&isnumber=5286960 .
• M. Sauer and J. Hurley, “Experimental 43 Gb/s NRZ and DPSK performance comparison for systems with up to 8 concatenated SOAs,” in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies, Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America,2006), paper CThY2.
• D. A. Francis, S. P. DiJaili, and J. D. Walker, “A single-chip linear optical amplifier,” in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OSA Technical Digest Series (Optical Society of America,2001), paper PD13.
• J. D. Downie and J. Hurley, “Effects of dispersion on SOA nonlinear impairments with DPSK signals,” in Proc. of 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, LEOS2008, paper WX3.
• P. S. Cho, Y. Achiam, G. Levy-Yurista, M. Margalit, Y. Gross, and J. B. Khurgin, “Investigation of SOA nonlinearities on the amplification of high spectral efficiency signals,” in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America,2004), paper MF70.
• A. Borghesani, “Semiconductor optical amplifiers for advanced optical applications,” International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON2006, 119–122.

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